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Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]

author(s) Kurdi, Sikandra - Hassan, Ganna - Jovanovic, Nina - Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Linda
from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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regions
  • Africa
  • World
  • Western Asia
  • Asia
  • Northern Africa
citation

Kurdi, Sikandra; Hassan, Ganna; Jovanovic, Nina; and Steinhuebel-Rasheed, Linda. 2025. Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa. In Global food policy report 2025: Food policy: Lessons and priorities for a changing world, eds. Johan Swinnen and Christopher Barrett. Part Six: Regional Developments and Priorities, Chapter 24, Pp. 555-567. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174358
Regional developments: Middle East and North Africa [in 2025 GFPR]

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Abstract

Over the past 50 years, food and agricultural policy in the Middle East and North Africa has alternated between the dual aims of prioritizing efficiency and economic growth, and ensuring national security through food self-sufficiency and broad-based provision of staple commodities. This chapter summarizes the historical trends in policies and outcomes as the region moved from heavy state interference to a period of liberalization, first examining agricultural production and related policies and then consumers and food and nutrition policy, before concluding with emerging policy issues and research priorities.

Book link: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174108

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