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Assessing the Impacts of the GAFTA Agreement on Selected Members’ bilateral Agricultural Trade: an Application of the Gravity Model
Trade flows of agricultural commodities have always received a lot of attention in the Arab region,
mainly due to their implications on food security, politics and competition. Most international trade theories
postulate ...
Introducing legumes for improving nutrition and economic resilience of cereal-based agri-food systems of the African and Asian drylands
Improving nutrition and economic resilience with cereal-based agri-food systems adapted to the drylands under a climate crisis in Africa and Asia: informing policies, guiding investment and increasing the capacities at ...
Explaining shifts in adaptive water management using a gendered multi-level perspective (MLP): a case study from the Nile Delta of Egypt
Understanding the logic behind farmers' choice of adaptive water management practice is important to appreciate the opportunities and challenges they face and to scale targeted solutions effectively. This paper aims to ...
Food Losses and Wastage along the Wheat Value Chain in Egypt and Their Implications on Food and Energy Security, Natural Resources, and the Environment
Pushing yield frontiers of cereals and legumes is becoming increasingly difficult, especially
in drylands. This paper argues and provides empirical evidence that food loss and wastage constitute
a sizeable proportion of ...
iNASHR Endline Evaluation Survey Questionnaire Programmed in an XLS form for use in Open Data Kit (ODK)
The file is a survey questionnaire for conducting and endline survey for the iNASHR project implemented in Egypt. It is programmed as an XLS form
Socioeconomic, biophysical, and environmental impacts of raised beds in irrigated wheat: A case study from Egypt
Raised beds (RB) are hailed as means to mitigate the problem of excessive irrigation. However, their adoption and impacts in Egypt are not well-documented. This paper is based on survey data collected from a sample of 691 ...
Data collection tool for the follow-up survey targeting farmers in Egypt
The data collection tools was developed to collect follow-up data among farmers that participated in the iNASHR project in Egypt
Climate-smart Diversified Cropping Systems for Drylands of the Arab Region
Cereals constitute the main staple food in the Arab countries and are, therefore, of key importance for food security in the region. But to ensure healthy diets and nutrition security, a diversification of food sources is ...
A Multivariate Analysis of Factors Affecting Adoption of Improved Varieties of Multiple Crops: A Case Study from Ethiopian Highlands
This paper analyzes the synergies/tradeoffs involved in the adoption of improved varieties of
multiple crops in the mixed crop-livestock production systems of the highlands of Ethiopia A
multivariate probit (MVP) model ...