Cholera spread: a symptom of structural failures
Lebanon has been cholera-free since 1993. On October 6, 2022, that changed when the Ministry of Public Health reported two laboratory-confirmed cholera cases in the country’s northern region. Since...
View ArticleAgricultural entrepreneurship
The importance of women-led startups is a no-brainer for entrepreneurial growth in every sector.Executive talks to Mrs. Lara ElKhoury a Program manager at Berytech, Mrs. Angie Meskawi the founder of...
View ArticleFood Infrastructure and Innovation
Access to finance is a major barrier to the development of infrastructure for the agriculture sector.Much needed Investment in general and agro-specific hard infrastructure along with soft...
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Regional equity markets
Beirut SE (One month) Current year high: 1,200.49 Current year low: 705.56 During the buildup towards end of year revelry, excitement in Lebanon was largely reserved for street life and...
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A Social Initiative by Coral Lebanon
The Coral Oil Company Limited empowers education with scholarships provided for 350 students across 25 schools. On the occasion of the 2022 end of year festive season, Coral led a corporate action...
View ArticleRoundtable on food sector
A discussion with experts from the food sector organized by Executive Magazine and in partnership with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The roundtable focused on the current state of food security in Lebanon...
View ArticleRoundtable on agro-industry and agro-entrepreneurship
A discussion with experts from the agro-industry and agro-entrepreneurship fields organized by Executive Magazine and in partnership with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The roundtable explored development...
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Building food security entrepreneurially
An entrepreneurship ecosystem captures the essence of entrepreneurial energy in a cycle of economic life. For these energies to become manifest and productive, ecosystems need a constant supply of...
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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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Lebanon’s agro startup scene
Dry and Raw Dry and Raw is a boutique food idea, inspired by nature and with the hope to provide local and international customers with up-market natural and organic food products from Lebanon. Dry...
View ArticleA Privilege to Die
The world does not need more books on Hezbollah. The question of how and why an organization with little more than two million — largely impoverished Shia — among its support base has been able to...
View ArticleRoundtable on agro-industry and agro-entrepreneurship
A discussion with experts from the agro-industry and agro-entrepreneurship fields organized by Executive Magazine and in partnership with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. The roundtable explored development...
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Deep reforms to ensure the future of Lebanon’s education sector
With its flying faculty model, ESA Business School (ESA) is an exceptional case in the Lebanese higher education sector. In contrast to many other institutions, resorting to direct fundraising was...
View ArticleSelf-sustaining in a circular economy and crumbling state: Wakilni’s...
The repercussions of the ongoing crisis in Lebanon have knocked on every door, be it businesses, homes or the public sector. Whilst companies cannot ignore the crisis, there are strategies to mitigate...
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Lebanon’s outlook: recovery or sliding into the abyss
Lebanon is facing a very challenging time, and our governments have taken no action at all and remained in a state of procrastination for the past three and a half years. This inaction and waiting for...
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2023: The year of reckoning
As Lebanon keeps pushing through one of the greatest economic and financial collapse’s in history, we can only appreciate the resilience of its private sector. Since the “official” start of the...
View ArticleStrategizing the digital industry for wider economic recovery
In the last three years, the Lebanese digital industry and private sector have been challenged beyond their capabilities from every side; with an economic meltdown, financial and monetary crises, and...
View ArticleA forecast and an outlook for brand Lebanon
A country’s brand is made of intricate and complicated components which work together to create this distinctive identity. Lebanon has unique attributes linked to its geopolitical location and its...
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