Wheat Value Chains and Food Security in the Middle East and North Africa Region

August 29, 2013

Ghada Ahmed | Danny Hamrick | Andrew Guinn | Ajmal Abdulsamad | Gary Gereffi

This report focuses on the wheat global value chain in the energy-exporting countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with particular emphasis on Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and the UAE. This is part of a multi-year research project funded by a grant to Duke from the US Department of Defense's MINERVA Initiative. https://sites.duke.edu/minerva/ Ghada Ahmed gave a presentation at the Seminar on Linking Food Security to Sustainable Agricultural Policies in the Mediterranean at the International Affairs Institute (IAI) Expo in Milan on June 20, 2015. View an interview on YouTube Ghada Ahmed and Danny Hamrick gave a presentation at the Policy Studies Organization and Digest of Middle East Studies event entitled "2015 Middle East Dialogue: Glorious Past, Uncertain Future" in Washington, DC on February 26, 2015. Food Security and Water Policy session at Middle East Dialogue 2015. Chair: Whitney Shepard, Policy Studies Organization; Water and War in the Modern Age: the Enduring Hydro-Politics of The Nile, Justin D. Leach, Troy University; Food Security and the Wheat Value Chain in the Middle East and North Africa, A panel with Ghada Ahmed and Danny Hamrick of Duke University (View YouTube video)