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IFAD in Egypt: voices from the field

© IFAD 		Graduating to a new life farming Egypt's desert

An innovative scheme in Egypt is creating work for the country’s large number of unemployed graduates and boosting the economy by reclaiming agricultural land from the desert.

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© IFAD 		Beyond the Arab Awakening: Research panel links food security and conflict in the Middle East and North Africa

As popular discontent swept across much of the Arab world over the past year, some observers were puzzled. “How is it,” asked the World Bank’s World Development Report 2011, “that countries in the Middle East and North Africa could face explosions of popular grievances despite, in some cases, sustained high growth and improvement in social indicators?”

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Statistics
Projects: 11

Total cost:
US$653.3 million

Approved IFAD loan:
US$323.0 million

Directly benefiting:
1,114,366 households
Contact Information

Abdelhamid Abdouli
Country programme manager
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
Rome, Italy
Work: +39 0654592248
Fax: +39 0654593248
a.abdouli@ifad.org

Mohamed Shaker Hebara
Country Programme Officer
1191 Corniche El Nil, World Trade Centre
Cairo, Egypt
Work: +2 02 25784840-6
Fax: +2 02 25784847