RIAC and ECFA Report № 68/2021
RIAC and ECFA Report № 68/2021
This report aims to analyze political risks for Russian-Egyptian Cooperation in North Africa and summarizes joint findings by experts from the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA). Russia and Egypt have important stakes in the region; both are actively engaged in international efforts to provide for peace and stability in North Africa. Russian and Egyptian experts pay specific...
The event was organized by the Center for Agricultural Research and Food Security
On March 29, 2020, the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences held the round table “Agrarian Problems and Models of Economic Development in the East”. The event was organized by the Center for Agricultural ...
... republics. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, these countries went through their own individual transformations, leading to a highly diversified socio-economic picture today. One of the most acute issues countries in the modern world face today is food security.
What is Food Security?
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines food security as physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet the dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy ...
... that would contribute to developing global food agenda, including organization of joint scientific conferences, round tables and other public events. The partner organizations are aiming at contributing to the establishment of a system of sustainable food security and reinforcement of the food agenda in the Russian foreign policy.
Within the framework of RIAC-Oxfam cooperation three joint events were organized: “
Impact of climate change on food security
”, “
Russia’s development ...
... the natural reserves of phosphate ores, observed for the first time ever at the turn of this millennium, presents a strategic challenge and lies at the root of the looming global food crisis and related international conflicts.
History repeats itself: food security
The new century is witnessing a growing conflict between two opposing civilizational trends: the higher consumption of key life-supporting factors (energy, food and water) on the one hand, and declining available reserves, on the other. ...
... cooperation with the independent international organization Oxfam held a roundtable discussion on “
Impact of Climate Change on Grain Production: Economic Assessment of Potential Damage until 2050. Potential Risks for National and International Food Security
”.
The meeting was opened by Ivan Timofeev, RIAC program director, and head of the Oxfam office in Russia Dmitri Medlev. Yulia Yevtushok, Oxfam’s Russian program coordinator, moderated the meeting.
The participants of the round ...
The Russian International Affairs Council in conjunction with the independent international organization Oxfam conducted, on 15 November 2012, a round table conference, “Impact of Climate Change on Food Security”. The meeting was opened by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeyev and Head of the Oxfam Office in Russia Dmitri Medlev. The moderator was Oxfam Russian Program Coordinator Yulia Yevtushok.
The round table brought together Russian experts,...
