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This is the forty eighth issue of the Statistical Year Book for the year 2020. The book is issued annually by National Center for Statistics and Information in view of the increasing importance of statistical data, alongside gradual transformation of the international...Read More

The Arab region will witness an additional 8.3 million people falling into poverty. The economic slowdown caused by COVID-19 is expected to negatively impact jobs, incomes, business and the flow of remittances in the Arab region, resulting in a shrinking middleincome...Read More

The policy briefs provide key policy recommendations to enhance food security in the Arab region, with a focus on issues pertaining to agriculture productivity, engagement with world food markets and food loss and waste. These were extracted from the joint ESCWA and...Read More

The crisis in Yemen is among the most serious and complex in the world. Over 7 million people are assisted by the World Food Programme (WFP), mostly through in-kind food assistance, but also through a commodity voucher programme1 and nutrition activities. In November...Read More

This report seeks to discover the state of food security in Jordan and identify areas of food insecurity and vulnerability at district level. The report also seeks to identify the living conditions of these households, e.g., their demographic and social characteristics...Read More

March 22 marked World Water Day; a day when we’re all supposed to take action to tackle the water crisis. But how many people even know there’s a crisis to be tackled? Certainly, a good few in the developing world will be aware that there’s something not quite right,...Read More

In response to the water crisis in the Middle East, the Compendium of Sanitation Systems and Technologies aims at providing innovative and sustainable solutions for the water and wastewater sector. Read More

This publication is intended as a contribution toward raising awareness of the nature of the EWF nexus challenges in developing countries and helping the development of insightful perspectives on these challenges. The pamphlet is written as an introduction to the...Read More

The present booklet sets out an analytical framework for understanding the water-energy-food security nexus in the Arab region and considers the linkages that affect the achievement of water, energy and food security and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a...Read More

Food production in Syria has hit a record low as widespread insecurity and unfavourable weather conditions in parts of the country continued to hamper access to land, farming supplies and markets, making it ever more difficult for farmers to maintain their livelihoods...Read More