Webinar #10 | | Impact of the Russian war on food security in Tunisia

Full title: Impact of the Russian war on food security in Tunisia – what lessons to learn for Tunisian ‎agriculture, rural development and what role can Europe play?

The Russian war against Ukraine caused additional food security threats to an already precarious scenario in terms of global hunger. The individual vulnerability, however, ‎differs across countries and depends as well on factors like domestic adjustment options by ‎trade and other policy measures.‎ The webinar will address the general food security risks caused by the Russian war and the pattern of ‎vulnerability for Tunisia. Additionally, possible and already used measures to react by Tunisia and ‎the EU will be elaborated.‎

About the speakers:

Bettina Rudloff is agricultural engineer and holds a PhD in trade economics. After being Assistant Professor at the University of Bonn, Germany, she worked at the European Institute for Public Administration EIPA in the Netherlands and led there e.g. trainings on behalf of DG trade for WTO negotiators of developing countries. Currently she is Senior Associate at the German Institute of International and Security Affairs, SWP, at Berlin and carries research and consultancy on trade and development and geo-strategic aspects of food security.
She is part of several advisory councils like for the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and for the joint working group on global food security with the German Ministry for Agriculture. As well, in 2022 she was part of the T7 process for the German presidency of G7.
She published on EU and Tunisians trade relations based on travels to Tunisia in cooperation with GIZ.

Houssem Eddine CHEBBI is Professor of Quantitative Methods at ESSECT-University of Tunis, Visiting Professor at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration and Member of the Scientific Council of Global Institute 4 Transitions (GI4T).
He holds a PhD in Economics (University of Zaragoza -Spain), a Master of Science and a post-graduate specialization diploma in the marketing of agricultural and food products from the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM- IAMZ) and an engineering diploma in horticultural sciences (Tunisia). He has a long experience working on a variety of topics, such as macroeconomic policy modelling, agricultural policy evaluation and monitoring, value chain analysis, price transmission and agricultural market integration and agricultural market information systems.
As an economist and agricultural policy analyst, he has participated in several technical assistance and advisory missions undertaken by several development agencies and technical and financial partners.
Houssem Eddine CHEBBI is the author of several articles in scholarly journals and technical and scientific reports on agricultural economics and policies.

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