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Egyptian Food Observatory is a quarterly bulletin that tracks trends in production, consumption and prices of key food commodities, and their impact on the food security situation of the most vulnerable households in urban and rural areas. It monitors and identifies emerging local and global trends that can affect food security in Egypt.

• Since January 2011, macro-economic instability is being fuelled by a volatile socio-political situation in Egypt.
• Rising unemployment and poverty are worsening food insecurity at a time when the subsidy system is under pressure.

Egyptian Food Observatory is a quarterly bulletin that tracks trends in production, consumption and prices of key food commodities, and their impact on the food security situation of the most vulnerable households in urban and rural areas. It monitors and identifies emerging local and global trends that can affect food security in Egypt.

Egyptian Food Observatory monthly bulletin that monitors and follows up the current situation and local crises through tracking the consumption pattern of the vulnerable households, market prices of the agricultural crops as well as commodities in the selected food basket, also to identify the status of food security.