The document summarizes the 2016 Global Food Policy Report (GFPR) published by IFPRI, which assesses major global food policy topics and developments as they relate to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It provides overviews of chapters in the GFPR covering issues like value chains, climate change, smallholders, and regional food policy developments in areas like the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. The GFPR is being released in Arabic for the first time in order to engage Arabic speaking audiences on these important global food policy issues.

1. SPEAKER:
SHERINE AL-SHAWARBY
Cairo University
MAGUED OSMAN
Baseera
DORTE VERNER
World Bank
CLEMENS BREISINGER
IFPRI
JACINTO FABIOSA
USAID/Egypt
PANELISTS:
Tuesday, May 10, 2016 | 3:00-4:30pm | Cairo, Egypt
Follow: #GFPR2016

2. IFPRI Global Food Policy Report 2016
 One of IFPRI’s annual
flagship reports
(5th edition)
 Assesses major food
policy topics and
developments
 In 2016 GFPR, many
chapters relate to SDGs
 2016 GFPR for the first
time with Arabic
language synthesis

3. Overview of Chapters
Value chains,
food systems
Regional
developments
Green energy
Sustainable
diets
Climate change,
smallholders,
SDGs
Healthy soils
Food loss and
food waste
Water
management
Food policy
indicators

4. MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
• MDGs/SDGs, conflicts and refugees
• From subsidies to social safety nets
SOUTH ASIA
• Bangladesh: New nutrition, food safety
policy
• India: New sanitation, irrigation program
AFRICA
• 18 countries achieved poverty MDG
• El Niño; Conflicts in Nigeria, Somalia,
South Sudan
LATIN AMERICA & CARRIBBEAN
• Poverty & hunger MDGs achieved
• Increasing overweight, obesity
EAST ASIA
• China: New food safety regulation
• Asian Infrastructure Investment
Bank established
Source: Adapted from Fan 2016
Regional Developments

5. • Many Arab countries were on track
of achieving MDG’s before 2010
• improvements in education,
sanitation, child mortality rates, and
maternal health
• progress has been weakest toward
cutting poverty, hunger, and
malnutrition by half
• But conflicts have undermined
previous advances made
• instead of halving poverty, poverty
has risen above the 1990s level
• an estimated 50 million people are
still undernourished
• dramatic increase in refugees
Major developments in MENA
Source: ArabSpatial: Go to map here
Source: ArabSpatial: Go to map here

6. IFPRI Policy Brief 23; November 2015
Arab region is among the largest source and largest
host of refugees

7. Policy initiatives:
• Emerging consensus has established food security and nutrition as a
priority goal for MENA at UN General Assembly in Oct. 2015 (SDG2)
• Many MENA countries directly or indirectly affected by conflict currently
find it hard to focus on SDGs and long term sustainable development
solutions
• Egypt is one of the exceptions and started significant reforms, for
example in fuel and food subsidies
MENA regional priorities:
• Peace building through emergency relief and development activities, incl.
support for hosting refugees
• Follow Egyptian example to move from subsidy-based systems to
targeted social safety nets
• Evidence-based policy making, data gathering and analysis
MENA policy initiatives and priorities

8. Food policy indicators and tools
Agricultural Total
Factor Productivity
(TFP)
Food Policy
Research Capacity
Indicators
(FPRCI)
Statistics on Public
Expenditure for
Economic
Development
(SPEED)
Global Hunger
Index
(GHI)
Ag Science and
Technology
Indicators
(ASTI)
ARAB SPATIAL:
Monitoring SDGs
in MENA

9. More information at IFPRI Egypt’s website at
www.egyptssp.ifpri.info

10. Thank you
Please contact us for further information at
www.egyptssp.ifpri.info
and
ifpri-egypt@cgiar.org