Search Results - "Egypt"

Strategic Research Trials on Genotype × Environment × Management in Major Cropping Systems using Advance Generation Genotypes and Mega-varieties by Devkota Wasti, Mina Kumari, Abdulraman, Rehab, El Amil, Rola, Idris, Amani A. M., Moussadek, Rachid, Attaher, Samar, Omar, Mohie, Devkota, Krishna, Juraev, Diyor, Elmarzak, Mohcin, Slimani, Mohammed

“…In this response, in collaboration with the national research centers and F2-R CWANA WP3, strategic G × E × M experimentation has been designed and established in 2022 in different wheat-based production systems in five CWANA countries, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Sudan, and Uzbekistan. The objective of this collaborative research is to generate standard data set for developing the bundled agronomic solution of diverse production environments through different analytical methods; and help to develop a breeding product profile to inform breeders for developing breeding strategy.…”
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The Russia-Ukraine war: Implications for global and regional food security and potential policy responses by Abay, Kibrom A., Breisinger, Clemens, Glauber, Joseph W., Kurdi, Sikandra, Laborde Debucquet, David, Siddig, Khalid

“…Thus, we provide descriptive evidence characterizing how food systems and policies impact vulnerability to the price shock in selected MENA countries: Egypt, Sudan, and Yemen. Within these countries, we show that the crisis will differentially impact poor and non-poor households as well as rural and urban households. …”
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Rising commodities prices driven by the Russia-Ukraine crisis threaten to undermine Kenya’s economy, increase poverty by Breisinger, Clemens, Diao, Xinshen, Dorosh, Paul A., Mbuthia, Juneweenex, Omune, Lensa, Oseko, Edwin Ombui, Pradesha, Angga, Thurlow, James

“…Given the important role that wheat products play in the diets of people in Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Lebanon, and other countries, the interruption in Black Sea wheat trade and high prices have raised serious concerns about rising levels of food insecurity, poverty, and instability around the world. …”
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Harnessing digital innovations for climate action and market access: Opportunities and constraints in the CWANA region by Tabe-Ojong, Martin Paul, Salama, Yousra, Abay, Kibrom A., Abdelaziz, Fatma, Zaccari, Claudia, Akramkhanov, Akmal, Menza, Gianpiero, Anarbekov, Oyture

“…Our desk and landscape review identifies various digital innovations used in Egypt, Morocco, and Uzbekistan. We then create a typology of digital innovations based on seven broad service categorizations: weather and climate; agricultural finance; energy and early warning systems; data and crowdsourcing; market information and market place; extension and advisory information; and supply chain coordination. …”
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COVID-19 and the Egyptian economy: Estimating the impacts of expected reductions in tourism, Suez Canal revenues, and remittances by Breisinger, Clemens, Abdelatif, Abla, Raouf, Mariam, Wiebelt, Manfred

“…Egypt’s recent economic success will almost certainly be interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Food policies and their implications on overweight and obesity trends in selected countries in the Near East and North Africa region by Abay, Kibrom A., Ibrahim, Hosam, Breisinger, Clemens, Bayasgalanbat, Nomindelger

“…We examine the evolution of trade (food) policies, food systems, and body weight outcomes across selected countries in the NENA region – Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq. In particular, we investigate the implications of important trade (food) policies in shaping diets and food systems as well as their implications on public health outcomes, mainly the rising levels of overweight and obesity in the NENA region. …”
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Research guide for water-energy-food nexus analysis by Ringler, Claudia, Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam, Paulos, Helen Berga, Mirzabaev, Alisher, Breisinger, Clemens, Wiebelt, Manfred, Siddig, Khalid, Villamor, Grace, Zhu, Tingju, Bryan, Elizabeth

“…The project set out to develop research methodologies and insights globally as well as for the Eastern Nile Technical Regional Organization (ENTRO) of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) and Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan to support efforts for enhanced water, energy and food security and environmental sustainability. …”
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The (Arab) Agricultural Investment for Development Analyzer (AIDA): An innovative tool for evidence-based planning by Raouf, Mariam, Kassim, Yumna, Kurdi, Sikandra, Mogues, Tewodaj, Mahmoud, Mai, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Thurlow, James, Wiebelt, Manfred, Breisinger, Clemens

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AgriTech4Uzbekistan Innovation Challenge: Demo Day by CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform

“…Rewatch the recording to learn from the 10 agri-tech innovation teams - Amudario Research LLC, Dehkanbaba, GeoAgro-Dehqon, GET Robotics, Growz, IWATER, mistEO, Piatrika Biosystems, WeavAir, ZeroEarthCompany, from 5 countries - Uzbekistan, India, Tanzania, Poland, and Egypt - pitch their solutions to the Selection Committee, industry experts, and investors, to secure funding that will enable them to introduce their products to the Uzbek market.…”
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Evaluation and large-scale dissemination of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in SubSaharan Africa by Kapinga, R., Zhang, D., Andrade, M.I., Lemaga, B., Mwanga, R.O.M., Tumwegamire, S., Laurie, S., Ndolo, P.J.

“…Distribution of more than twenty promising clones has been done to Madagascar, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Zanzibar, Malawi, D.R. Congo and Sudan. Over 10 million cuttings of planting material of improved varieties were multiplied and distributed in East African region, covering over 360 hectares of farmers’ fields.…”
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Banking on the poor: unleashing the benefits of microfinance by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…Insights presented here are based on a series of detailed household surveys conducted in nine countries of Africa and Asia: Bangladesh, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Nepal, and Pakistan.... …”
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The impact of expanding eucalyptus plantations on the hydrology of a humid highland watershed in Ethiopia by Fenta, H. M., Steenhuis, T. S., Negatu, T. A., Zimale, F. A., Cornelis, W., Tilahun, Seifu A.

“…Quantifying these effects in the Ethiopian Highlands is crucial, as 85% of the transboundary water in Egypt and Sudan originates from these highlands. …”
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Domestic wastewater treatment and agricultural reuse progress and reporting challenges by Qadir, M., Drechsel, Pay, Jones, E. R.

“…China) and agricultural (e.g. Egypt) reuse of treated wastewater, untreated water reuse remains a dilemma that requires special attention where it is most common, i.e., in low-income and lower-middle-income countries. …”
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Emerging vector borne diseases as public health threats and diseases of trade. The case of Rift Valley fever: a threat to livestock trade and food security in the Horn of Africa by Tibbo, Markos, Workalemahu, A., Bonnet, P.

“…The epidemics that occurred in Egypt in 1977-78 and current human and animal cases in Yemen and Saudi Arabia (first case out of Africa) indicated the potential for spread to other inter-tropical regions of the world outside the African continent. …”
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Rift Valley fever - an emerging threat to livestock trade and food security in the Horn of Africa: A review by Bonnet, P., Tibbo, Markos, Workalemahu, A., Gau, M.

“…The epidemics that occurred in Egypt in 1977-78 and recent human and livestock cases in Yemen and Saudi Arabia (in September 1000) indicated the potential for the disease to spread to other inter-tropical regions of the world outside African continent. …”
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Rift Valley fever - an emerging threat to livestock trade and food security in the Horn of Africa: A review. Poster presentation by Tibbo, Markos, Workalemahu, A., Bonnet, P., Domenech, J.

“…The epidemics that occurred in Egypt in 1993 and current human and animal cases in Yemen and Saudi Arabia indicate that the potential exists for spread to other regions of the world outside the African continent. …”
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Dynamic risk model for Rift Valley fever outbreaks in Kenya based on climate and disease outbreak data by Gikungu, D., Neyole, E., Muita, R., Wakhungu, Judi W., Siamba, D., Bett, Bernard K.

“…Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral zoonotic disease that occurs throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula, with heavy impact in affected countries. …”
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Banana bunchy top virus in subSaharan Africa: investigations on virus distribution and diversity by Kumar, P. Lava, Hanna, R., Alabi, O.J., Soko, M.M., Oben, T.T., Vangu, G.H.P., Naidu, R.A.

“…Analysis of the nucleotide sequences of DNA-S and DNA-R indicate that BBTV isolates from these countries are genetically identical forming a unique clade within the ‘South Pacific’ phylogroup that includes isolates from Australia, Egypt, South Asia and South Pacific. These results imply that farmers’ traditional practice of transferring vegetative propagules within and between countries, together with virus spread by the widely prevalent banana aphid vector, Pentalonia nigronervosa, could have contributed to the geographic expansion of BBTV in SSA. …”
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Adaptation pattern and yield stability of banana and plantain genotypes grown in contrasting agro-ecologies in Nigeria by Tenkouano, A., Baiyeri, K.P.

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Loquat (Eriobotrya L.) by Badenes, María L., Lin, S. Q., Liu, C., Huang, X.

“…Thereafter, loquat was distributed around the Mediterranean countries, including Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey. …”
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