Lebanon’s food security in crisis-mode
The latest chapter of Lebanon’s compounded and overlapping disasters has emerged in the shape of a bleak and multifaceted food crisis. As if a hard-hitting dose of COVID-19, the Beirut port explosion...
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Falling food safety standards have left a population sick
Access to sufficient quantities of safe and nutritious food is a basic right, yet in Lebanon, such access can no longer be guaranteed. The three-year old economic crisis, which quickly expanded into a...
View ArticleBad market, good market
Markets were the first places where food security was achieved in a commercial context. It can be philosophically presumed that the other conduits of prehistoric food security consisted of charitable...
View ArticleTo rise from ruins
The Souk El Tayeb farmers’ market on Beirut’s Armenia Street has an established feel to it. There are many regulars to be seen on both sides of the small stands. Regular customers are crowding the...
View ArticleLess hype,more hope
It was a sequence of electrifying experiences for a kid from the German provinces. It began withlooking in awe around the grand movie theater in no less than Leicester Square, London, and soon went on...
View ArticleCircular agriculture
Circularity is an approach that has been intensively studied over the past ten years. It is based on three main principles: designing out waste and pollution; keeping products and materials in use;...
View ArticleLand of milk and honey?
In 2019, ‘Honeyland’, a documentary produced in a little-known country in what the United Nations calls East Central and South-East Europe, earned wide critical acclaim and won internationanal awards....
View ArticleThe official trade and security angle
Along with other ministries, the Ministry of Economy and Trade (MoET) constitutes the administrative framework of enabling institutions for food security in Lebanon. To understand the MoET’s recent...
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On the Value of Lebanese olive oil
Olive trees have their homes around the Mediterranean Sea. Britannica says they are cultivated commercially in two world-spanning climate belts between approximately the 30th and 45th latitudes North...
View ArticleFood security & food safety
In Lebanon, 46 percent of households are food insecure – a figure likely to rise in the coming months as state subsidies on essential imports like cooking oil, bread and rice, come under strain as the...
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Circular agriculture
Circularity is an approach that has been intensively studied over the past ten years. It is based on three main principles: designing out waste and pollution; keeping products and materials in use;...
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Entrepreneurs to fight food insecurity
The future of local food security heavily relies on the arduous efforts of policymakers and decision-takers to develop a nationwide roadmap and save what is left of the agro-food sector at the macro-,...
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Seeking exits from obtrusion
What can illustrate the relationship between the farmer and the banker in this country? To modify an old consultant joke to a Lebanese scenario, let us assume – purely for the sake of illustration –...
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Many trees in the garden
It is much more than a vague, billion-dollar opportunity for growing cannabis. Lebanese agriculture today is a field with many plots whose diversity has already grown when compared with some five...
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Infamous infrastructures
The future of farming will involve escalations of aquaculture and urban farming. These are ancient forms of food cultivation that are or can be decoupled from soil. As such, they have become...
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Targeting the resilience factor
Investing into an agricultural stock or an agricultural infrastructure system is intensely unlike dreaming of instant financial gratification, for example by becoming a financial markets jock. Imagine...
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Can Lebanon compensate?
In light of Lebanon’s context and current difficulties, food security should focus on the ongoing availability, affordability, and accessibility of nutritious food products that satisfy the dietary...
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Lebanon: are the hunger games behind us?
Food insecurity is at the forefront of global threats and its prevalence is intensifying. An estimated 54.5 million people are severely food-insecure in the Eastern Mediterranean region as a result of...
View ArticleAgri-food industry and academia
They say Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars, but they can still manage to settle on a common ground, and carry a fruitful relationship which might last for years. Industry and academia have...
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Ashrafieh reaching higher A study recently conducted by Al Iktisad Wal Aamal magazine on real estate projects in the Achrafieh area of Beirut showed that there are currently 91 projects under...
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