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ProjectBuilding Capacity of MOSS-Supported Beneficiaries in the Targeted Governorates through Stimulating Agriculture and the Agro-Food Value Chain - TCP/EGY/3804 2025
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No results found.Egypt faces significant food security challenges, particularly in Upper Egypt, where 49 percent of residents cannot cover their own basic needs. Most landowners possess less than one feddan, and financial support from the Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS) has gradually become insufficient in meeting the basic needs of food-insecure residents due to rising food prices. In response, the MOSS sought FAO assistance to support the nationally led Fostering Opportunities in Rural Southern Areas (FORSA) project, which aimed to economically empower recipients of financial support and smallholders by transforming them into independent producers through various income-generating activities to enhance the agrifood value chain. The horticulture sector in Egypt remains highly fragmented. On one hand, large-scale farms, located in newly reclaimed desert areas, are highly productive, run by professionals, and equipped with modern facilities so that they meet international standards and have robust marketing connections. On the other, smallholders, who farm 90 percent of horticultural land, usually run small, fragmented plots and face numerous challenges such as a lack of planning and inadequate packing and storage facilities, leading to poor product quality and diminished market competitiveness. -
ProjectPromote Agricultural Value Chains to Strengthen Local Food Systems (Impacted by COVID-19) - TCP/CKI/3802 2024
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No results found.Domestic food production in the Cook Islands has sharply declined over the past decades, leading to increased dependence on imported foodstuffs, with imports rising from NZD 10.3 million in 1986 to NZD 30 million in 2012. This has created a high vulnerability in food security. The per capita consumption of imported food in 2012 was valued at over NZD 2 000 per resident. The decline in local food production, rising trade imbalance and increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) necessitated urgent policies and interventions to develop nutrition-sensitive crop value chains, improve local food production and consumption, and link agriculture to tourism, promote local agricultural products for consumption and export. The economic impacts of COVID-19, although the virus had not reached the Cook Islands, were significant due to declines in tourism, which was a major market for local produce. This was likely to result in a recession and disruption in food supply chains, impacting household incomes and food purchasing power, especially in urban areas reliant on imported foods. -
ProjectMainstreaming Nutrition in National and Regional Trade Laws and Regulations of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Promoting Local Food Value Chains for Intra-Sids Trade - TCP/RAF/3707 2021
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No results found.SIDS suffer from the effects of climate change shocks. Cyclones, hurricanes and more erratic rainfall leading to drought, flooding, rising sea levels and eroding coastlines exacerbate already fragile natural environments, making it more difficult to produce sufficient food to meet their needs. Given their geographic and economic isolation, many SIDS rely heavily on remote markets for their food supplies, leading to undernutrition, micronutrient deficiencies and obesity, the ‘triple burden’ of malnutrition. Diabetes and other non-communicable chronic diseases are at excessive levels in a growing number of SIDS, largely as a result of a diet of processed imported foods that are high in sugar, salt and fats, aggravated by unchecked trade liberalization policies. Although undernutrition has fallen over the past three decades, levels of stunting still exceed 20 percent in children in the poorest SIDS. At the same time, levels of obesity, particularly among women, have increased sharply in many SIDS, including those in Africa. Food imports are an increasingly important source of food availability in most SIDS, despite the poor nutritional quality of many imported foods. Foreign investment in domestic food processing sectors in some SIDS has also contributed to the increased availability, and lower prices, of highly processed foods. The result has been a shift away from traditional, domestic staples, such as fruit and vegetables, towards diets high in processed and animal source foods, sugar, fat and salt. This shift has been identified as a leading driver behind the sharp rise in obesity and micronutrient deficiency in SIDS.
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