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 Under
the patronage of the Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform,
the National Agricultural Policy Center (NAPC) in cooperation with
the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) organized
a training workshop on “Food Security Policies in the Arab Countries
under the World Food Crisis” on 3 - 7 August 2008, at the NAPC
premises in Damascus.
Dr. Nabi Rashid Mohammed, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and
Agrarian Reform, Dr. Abbas Abou-owf, Technical Advisor of the AOAD,
and the NAPC Director Mr. Ateih El Hindi opened the workshop.
Representatives of 16 countries of the Arab Region attended the
workshop. The participants were Senior/Middle level officers at
Ministries of Agriculture responsible for agricultural policy and
agricultural economics & planning.
It is clear that the impact of global soaring food prices in the
Arab world, especially low-income and food-importing countries, is
of serious concern. Therefore, exploring the situation of food
security is needed presently to ensure food availability and
accessibility, and then to advice governments on policy measures in
response to the crisis.
With this perspective, the workshop focused on the main features &
recent trends of international food prices tracing the causes of
this crisis; and it looked at the strategies that governments shall
pursue to contribute positively in attaining a sustainable food
security in the Arab world for the forthcoming years.
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list of participants
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workshop presentations
:
•
Indicators of the Arab Food Security Status (Raed Hattar, AOAD)
(PPS
1.5MB)
• Impacts of World Food Crisis on Arab Food Security (Jamal Siam, Cairo University/Egypt)
(PPS
80KB)
• Food Chain and the Related Policies (Jamal Siam, Cairo
University/Egypt)
(PPS
180KB)
• Food Availability & Accessibility Impacting Factors (Wahid
Mojahed, Ein Shams University/Egypt)
(PPS
120KB)
• International Efforts Placed to Solve the Food Crisis (Atieh
El-Hindi /NAPC)
(PPS
100KB)
• Sustainable Arab Agricultural Development for the Next Two Decades
(Abase Abu-Owf, AOAD)
(PPS 600KB)
• Impacts of the Utilization of Agricultural Crops in Biofuels
Production on the Arab
& World Food Security (Raid Hater, AOAD)
(PPS
900KB)
• Training on Analyzing Food Security Indicators (Haitham Al-Ashkar,
Samir Grad, /NAPC)
(PPS
90KB)
• Training on Applying the supply & Demand Analysis (Haitham
Al-Ashkar, Samir Grad, /NAPC)
(PPS
250KB)
• Training on Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) (Basima Atiya, Haitham
Al-Ashkar /NAPC)(PPS
400KB)
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