Fortifying <i>baladi</i> Bread in Egypt: Reaching More than 50 Million People through the Subsidy Program

Elhakim, Nadine; Laillou, Arnaud; Nakeeb, Anwar El; Yacoub, Rukia; Shehata, Magdy

doi:10.1177/15648265120334s302

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“…Some programs have also used iron fortified bread as well as vitamin A fortified cooking oil 15 and surveillance data have reported decrease in neural tube defects due to folate fortification . More recently bio-fortification programs have been seen in the region whereby food enriched with vitamin A, Vitamin B complex, zinc, iron and folic acid are being produced [18][19][20][21][22] .…”

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Maternal nutrition: how is Eastern and Southern Africa faring and what needs to be done?

Salam

Syed

et al. 2015

Afr H. Sci.

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Background: The progress in key maternal health indicators in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region (ESAR) over the past two decades has been slow. Objective: This paper analyzed available information on nutrition programs and nutrition-specific interventions targeting maternal nutrition in the ESAR and proposes steps to improve maternal nutrition in this region. Methods: Search was conducted in relevant databases. Meta-analysis was done where there was sufficient data, while data from the nutrition programs was abstracted for objectives, settings, beneficiaries, stakeholders, impact of interventions and barriers encountered during implementation. Results: Findings from our review suggest that multiple nutrition programs are in place in the ESAR; including programs that directly address nutrition indicators and those that integrate corresponding sectors like agriculture, health, education, and water and sanitation. However, their scale and depth differ considerably. These programs have been implemented by a diverse range of players including respective government ministries, international agencies, non government organisations and the private sector in the region. Most of these programs are clustered in a few countries like Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia while others e.g. Comoros, Somalia and Swaziland have only had a limited number of initiatives. Conclusion: These programs have been associated with some improvements in overall maternal health and nutritional indicators; however these are insufficient to significantly contribute to the progress in the region. Efforts should be prioritized in countries with the greatest burden of maternal undernutrition and associated risk factors with a focus on existing promising interventions to improve maternal nutrition.

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Maternal nutrition: how is Eastern and Southern Africa faring and what needs to be done?

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Syed

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Afr H. Sci.

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“…However, unfortunately the program was interrupted in 2014, and, although no major evaluations were carried out, smaller studies suggested that up to 50 million Egyptians were consuming quality-assured fortified baladi bread on a daily basis. In 2011, 6.5 million metric tons of fortified wheat flour were produced by 143 participating public and private sector mills (Elhakim et al 2012). However, the iron compound and dosage used for fortification do not conform to WHO's current guidelines (WHO, FAO, UNICEF, GAIN, MI, and FFI 2009).…”

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Scaling Up Nutrition in the Arab Republic of Egypt: Investing in a Healthy Future

Herbst¹,

Elshalakani²,

Kakietek³

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“…Wheat is well suited for growth in the climate of Egypt and it considered one of the top-most crops in production. This can be an advantage if the country properly invests in it, but the real scenarios is that, Egypt's current export status of wheat is by 550 tons (29).…”

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“…This type is used heavily due to Egypt's social conditions since over more than 25% of Egyptians population are living under the poverty line. Due to that, the government introduced the Baladi bread program that is only now available to those sectors that are having smart provisioning card systems that allows special income citizens to buy the Baladi beard lower than its actual price even though it been rated at a fixes price since 1989, (28,29,32).…”

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“…Every person who benefits from the government bread Baladi subsidy systems is allowed 150 louvers per months and the price of Baladi bread is sold at a subsidized price of EGP 0.05 per loaf ($0.01 per loaf) which is less than one tenth of its actual cost. In addition, the government also compensates bakeries for the difference in production cost (26,29,32). Moving on, the Baladi bread smart card system benefits those who consume less than the quota amount and rewards those who convert bread savings into points 100 point = 1 EGP (1 point = 0,01 EGP).…”

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The Interrelationship Between Controlled and Uncontrolled Factors Affecting The Percentage of Value Added of Wheat To GDP In Egypt

Nada,

Tharwat*

2019

IJRTE

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Agriculture had been the essence of the Egyptian economy but recently it had been facing a major decline in its value-added GDP going from 30% to 12% in the year 2016. The cause of this was believed to be due to the agricultural policies that have focused on the production of the local market in the short-term and neglected the long-term aspects and dimensions. This had led the Egyptians to move towards urbanization, which has a growth rate of 22%. However, this shift had affected one of the major strategic crops in the country. This is the wheat agriculture whose importance shows through the wheat consumption-GDP ratio which was about 1.66%, making it the first among all other significant crops. On the other hand, it is noticed that there is a huge gap between the wheat production and wheat consumption in Egypt that is due to the large purchases of imported wheat where Egypt is considered the world's largest wheat importer. This affects both the trade balance as well as the foreign net reserves that the country possesses because of issues with wheat production and economic instability, A wheat production model using Econometrics is being prepared to assess whether the stated variables have a significant impact. Our assumption in this paper is based on the economic theory, we built the multiple regression model by first changing the verbal equation into a simpler, verbal error-free equation, we carried out the work by using the science of “Econometrics” to interpret the reality of the relationship of different variables we will determine in paper to wheat production. This is done by knowing the values of the parameters of each independent variable to be then known as coefficients.

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Fortifying baladi Bread in Egypt: Reaching More than 50 Million People through the Subsidy Program

Cited by 35 publications

References 7 publications

Maternal nutrition: how is Eastern and Southern Africa faring and what needs to be done?

Maternal nutrition: how is Eastern and Southern Africa faring and what needs to be done?

Scaling Up Nutrition in the Arab Republic of Egypt: Investing in a Healthy Future

The Interrelationship Between Controlled and Uncontrolled Factors Affecting The Percentage of Value Added of Wheat To GDP In Egypt

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