Symposium Policy Note 2 Digitalization Of Agricultural Services And Policy Analysis In Egypt

Author : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Symposium policy note 2: Digitalization of agricultural services and policy analysis in Egypt by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Pdf

This policy note is one in a series of four notes that summarize key findings and recommendations from 32 seminars organized by IFPRI between 2016 and 2020 under the Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity Project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and from related research done in collaboration with national and international partners in Egypt. The briefs have been prepared on the basis of a joint symposium and are intended to give policymakers and program designers in the areas of social protection, nutrition, agricultural policy, and the digitalization of agriculture a quick overview of research-based recommendations on key policy issues that will better enable Egypt to achieve several of the goals outlined in the Sustainable Development Strategy 2030. This policy note highlights how digital tools can help improve monitoring, evaluation, and extension services in Egypt’s agriculture sector and how policy analysis can be institutionalized to guide transformation of the food system and rural economies. Four recommendations are discussed: Building on ongoing efforts, continue to digitize agricultural information systems, build and link agricultural databases, and exploit new sources of data. Build on ongoing projects that develop mobile telephone applications for farmers and learn from international experiences to revitalize and digitalize agricultural extension in Egypt. Build the capacity of agricultural policy analysts within the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation and universities, using both conventional and new digital tools to provide high-quality, research-based policy advice. Promote further digitalization to improve the resilience of food systems in view of shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Symposium policy note 2: Digitalization of agricultural services and policy analysis in Egypt [in Arabic] by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Pdf

Author : OECD,United Nations Industrial Development Organization,United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264660274

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OECD Development Pathways Production Transformation Policy Review of Egypt Embracing Change, Achieving Prosperity by OECD,United Nations Industrial Development Organization,United Nations Economic Commission for Africa,United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Pdf

Egypt is one of Africa’s industrial heavyweights. Transforming the country's economy to sustain job-rich and sustainable growth are pivotal steps in its march towards prosperity. Today’s search for new development models, accelerated by the unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for shifting up a gear in raising Egypt’s industrial capabilities to compete in an industry 4.0 and agro 4.0 landscape. The Production Transformation Policy Review (PTPR) of Egypt uses a forward-looking framework to assess the country's readiness to embrace change. This includes an analysis of the game-changing potential of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and perspectives on agro-food and electronics (i.e. what in Egypt is referred to as part of the engineering sector), as well as identifying priorities for future reforms. This review is the result of government-business dialogue, and benefited from peer learning from Italy and Malaysia. It also resulted from international and multi-stakeholder knowledge sharing through a dedicated Peer Learning Group (PLG) and the OECD Initiative for Policy Dialogue on Global Value Chains, Production Transformation and Development.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264887855

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Digital Opportunities for Better Agricultural Policies by OECD Pdf

Recent digital innovations provide opportunities to deliver better policies for the agriculture sector by helping to overcome information gaps and asymmetries, lower policy-related transaction costs, and enable people with different preferences and incentives to work better together. Drawing on ten illustrative case studies and unique new data gathered via an OECD questionnaire on agri-environmental policy organisations' experiences with digital tools, this report explores opportunities to improve current agricultural and agri-environmental policies, and to deliver new, digitally enabled and information-rich policy approaches.

Author : Pyburn, Rhiannon, ed.,van Eerdewijk, Anouka, ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896293915

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Advancing gender equality through agricultural and environmental research: Past, present, and future by Pyburn, Rhiannon, ed.,van Eerdewijk, Anouka, ed. Pdf

Over the past decade, interest in gender equality and women’s empowerment has grown rapidly, creating a unique opportunity to institutionalize gender research within agricultural research for development. This book, edited by researchers from the CGIAR Gender Platform, reviews and reflects on the growing body of evidence from gender research. It marks a shift a way from a traditional focus on how gender analysis can contribute to improved productivity, flipping the question to ask, How does agricultural and environmental research and development contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment? Chapters synthesize the wide range of CGIAR and other research in this area, covering breeding research and seed systems, value chain participation, nutrition-sensitive agriculture, natural resources, climate adaptation and mitigation, the “feminization” of agriculture, women’s role in agricultural research, and emerging gender transformative approaches.

Author : Jiangang Liu,Zhenjiang Zhou,Bo Li
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832544303

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Remote Sensing for Field-based Crop Phenotyping by Jiangang Liu,Zhenjiang Zhou,Bo Li Pdf

Dynamic monitoring of crop phenotypic traits (e.g., LAI, plant height, biomass, nitrogen, yield et al.) is essential for exploring crop growth patterns, breeding new varieties, and determining optimized strategies for crop management. Traditional methods for determining crop phenotypic traits are mainly based on field sampling, handheld instrument measurement, and mechanized high-throughput platforms, which are time-consuming, and have low efficiency and incomplete spatial coverage. The development of crop science requires more rapid and accurate access to field-based crop phenotypes. Remote sensing provides a novel solution to quantify crop structural and functional traits in a timely, rapid, non-invasive and efficient manner. With the development of burgeoning remote sensing sensors and diversified algorithms, a range of crop phenotypic traits have been determined, including morphological parameters, spectral and textural characteristics, physiological traits, and responses to abiotic/biotic stresses in different environments. In addition, research advances in varying disciplines beyond agricultural sciences, such as engineering, computer science, molecular biology, and bioinformatics, have brought new opportunities for further development of remote sensing-based methods and technologies to gain more quantitative information on crop structure and function in complex environments

Author : Breisinger, Clemens,ElDidi, Hagar,El-Enbaby, Hoda,Gilligan, Daniel,Karachiwalla, Naureen,Kassim, Yumna,Kurdi, Sikandra,Jilani, Amir Hamza,Thai, Giang
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896295964

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Egypt’s Takaful and Karama cash transfer program: Evaluation of program impacts and recommendations by Breisinger, Clemens,ElDidi, Hagar,El-Enbaby, Hoda,Gilligan, Daniel,Karachiwalla, Naureen,Kassim, Yumna,Kurdi, Sikandra,Jilani, Amir Hamza,Thai, Giang Pdf

Egypt has been providing cash to poor households through its first conditional cash transfer program, Takaful and Karama, a social protection program run by the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MoSS), since March 2015. Takaful (“Solidarity”) supports poor families with children under 18, while Karama (“Dignity”) supports the elderly poor and people living with disabilities. The cash transfer program has enrolled 2.25 million families across all of Egypt’s governorates. The amount of the Takaful cash transfer provided to households depends on the number of children and their school level. The Karama program provides a set amount per individual. In order to reach the poorest households, participants are selected using a proxy means test. In the Takaful program, 89 percent of recipients are women, while only 11 percent are men. Beginning in 2018, Takaful will also begin implementing conditionalities, requiring households in the program to ensure their children attend school and participate in health screenings, added to antenatal care for pregnant women and post-natal care. The Takaful and Karama program was evaluated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) using both quantitative statistical methods (simple questions asked to many households during a survey) and qualitative methods (more in-depth questions asked to fewer households in longer interviews). The evaluation was designed to measure and explain the impacts of the cash transfers on household welfare, and to examine whether the program’s criteria for household selection were effective in identifying poor households. This brief, which focuses on the Takaful component of the program, summarizes the main findings from the evaluation and key recommendations.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Perez, Nicostrato D.,Kassim, Yumna,Ringler, Claudia,Thomas, Timothy S.,ElDidi, Hagar,Breisinger, Clemens
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896294189

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Climate-resilience policies and investments for Egypt’s agriculture sector: Sustaining productivity and food security by Perez, Nicostrato D.,Kassim, Yumna,Ringler, Claudia,Thomas, Timothy S.,ElDidi, Hagar,Breisinger, Clemens Pdf

The importance of a resilient agriculture sector in providing food security, livelihoods, and household income was highlighted in many countries by the recent pandemic, as was the capacity of the sector to cushion the negative impacts of the subsequent economic slowdown. This has been the case in Egypt, where agriculture has been resilient to the health crisis in comparison with the service and industry sectors (Breisinger et al. 2020). However, the sector’s resiliency is gradually being corroded by climate change, with lasting, harmful effects for agriculture and food systems.

Author : UNICEF
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789210049504

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The State of the World's Children 2019 (Arabic language) by UNICEF Pdf

This report examines nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. Despite progress in the past two decades, around 200 million under-fives suffer from undernutrition. Adding to this toll is rising obesity, which affects 38 million children. All these forms of malnutrition threaten children’s development, while obesity is creating a lifelong legacy of disease. At the heart of this evolving challenge is a global shift towards modern diets that do not meet children’s nutritional requirements. The report provides unique data and analysis of malnutrition in the 21st century and outlines recommendations to put children’s needs at the heart of global and national food systems.

Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015023069019

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Monthly Catalog, United States Public Documents by United States. Superintendent of Documents Pdf

February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

Author : United Nations
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789210046053

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The State of the World's Children 2019 by United Nations Pdf

This report examines nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. Despite progress in the past two decades, around 200 million under-fives suffer from undernutrition. Adding to this toll is rising obesity, which affects 38 million children. All these forms of malnutrition threaten children’s development, while obesity is creating a lifelong legacy of disease. At the heart of this evolving challenge is a global shift towards modern diets that do not meet children’s nutritional requirements. The report provides unique data and analysis of malnutrition in the 21st century and outlines recommendations to put children’s needs at the heart of global and national food systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08
Category : Science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924055269942

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Government Reports Announcements & Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : UNICEF
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789210049498

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Estado mundial de la infancia 2019 by UNICEF Pdf

Por primera vez en 20 años, el Estado Mundial de la Infancia de UNICEF examina la cuestión de los niños, los alimentos y la nutrición, aportando una nueva perspectiva sobre un problema que evoluciona rápidamente. A pesar de los progresos realizados en las dos últimas décadas, una tercera parte de los niños menores de 5 años están malnutridos (con retraso en el crecimiento, emaciación o sobrepeso), mientras que dos terceras partes corren el riesgo de padecer emaciación y hambre oculta a causa de la deficiente calidad de su alimentación. Estos patrones reflejan una profunda triple carga de malnutrición -desnutrición (retraso en el crecimiento y emaciación), hambre oculta y sobrepeso - que amenaza la supervivencia, el crecimiento y el desarrollo de los niños y de los países. En el núcleo de este desafío se encuentra un sistema alimentario deficiente que no proporciona a los niños los alimentos que necesitan para crecer sanos. Este informe ofrece datos y análisis exclusivos sobre la malnutrición en el siglo XXI y ofrece recomendaciones para situar los derechos de la infancia en el centro de los sistemas alimentarios.

Author : Anthony M. Orum,Javier Ruiz-Tagle,Serena Vicari Haddock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119316824

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Companion to Urban and Regional Studies by Anthony M. Orum,Javier Ruiz-Tagle,Serena Vicari Haddock Pdf

COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies Companion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies. Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic problems facing twenty-first century cities. Covering historical issues, current challenges, and comparative perspectives in urban studies, this timely resource: Addresses intensely debated policy issues such as governance, housing, immigration and migration, segregation, social mix, and gentrification Describes the use of demographic methods, advanced spatial analysis, social networks, policy mobilities, and ethnographies in urban studies research Discusses critical urban theory, feminist urban research, urbanization and environmental change, and the legacy of the Chicago School Covers contemporary research topics such as urban and regional inequalities, social heterogeneity and diversity, financialization Includes representative case studies of each region, including Australasia, Latin America, East Asia and South Asia Companion to Urban and Regional Studies is essential reading for scholars, researchers, practitioners, urban activists, and students, and it represents a must-have complement to The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.