Food crisis and consumer subsidies

194531%13,000,0005 piastres*System of food subsidies decreedPercentage of adults qualified as obese in 2015-2017Number of people in 2018 without a bread ration card despite being entitled to onePrice per loaf of baladi flat bread since 1989Source: FAO, 2015-2017 While Egypt may be the “gift of the Nile”, it has paradoxically become an agricultural country faced with a chronic problem of food dependency. In 2016 scarcely 48% of the country’s wheat needs were covered by local production. As the...