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Enhancing Egypt’s Food System Resilience Case Study on Wheat System

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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بحوث علمية متخصصة في الاقتصاد الزراعي.

Abstract

This research shows the importance of food system resilience in this era, in which the world suffers from a polycrisis. Egypt has a fragile wheat system, this research focuses on investigating how to reach a wheat system resilience, by analyzing the main actors of the wheat supply and demand, whose activities are influenced by a range of drivers, including stresses and shocks. A conceptual framework for the wheat system is created with a holistic view. This results in identifying the leverage points that can affect wheat resilience in Egypt, and propose relevant policy options for decision-makers. The research shows that the seriousness of shocks facing imports at the forefront, due to the difficulty of controlling them as well as the difficulty of predicting them, followed by shocks related to consumption because they require political will and decisions that may result in serious social impacts and public anger, and then come in third place the seriousness of shocks in the production stage, since the ways to confront them, predicting them, and preparing for them is easier than the other two shocks. The research proposes some policy options to overcome this problem

DOI

10.21608/meae.2024.322603.1330

Keywords

Enhancing Wheat System Resilience, Systems Thinking Approach, Policy Options for Egypt’s Wheat System Resilience

Authors

First Name

Amani El Rayes

Last Name

El Rayes

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Institute of National Planning

Email

amani.elrayes@inp.edu.eg

City

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Orcid

0000-0002-1720-4902

First Name

Mai

Last Name

Awad

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Institute of National Planning

Email

mai.awad@inp.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Hoda

Last Name

Al Nemr

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Institute of National Planning

Email

hodaalnemr@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

Aya

Last Name

Rabie

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Institute of National Planning

Email

aya.ebrahim@inp.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

-

Volume

34

Article Issue

3

Related Issue

50160

Issue Date

2024-09-01

Receive Date

2024-09-21

Publish Date

2024-10-12

Page Start

1,252

Page End

1,295

Print ISSN

1110-6832

Online ISSN

2735-4040

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385,662

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أبحاث علمیة متخصصة فی الاقتصاد الزراعی

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1,466

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Journal

Publication Title

المجلة المصرية للاقتصاد الزراعي

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https://meae.journals.ekb.eg/

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Enhancing Egypt’s Food System Resilience Case Study on Wheat System

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26 Dec 2024