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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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2015 Nutrition country profile: Syrian Arab Republic

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2015 Nutrition country profile: Syrian Arab Republic

The 193 individual country profiles capture the status and progress of all UN Member States, and the 80+ indicators include a wealth of information on child, adolescent and adult anthropometry and nutritional status, in addition to intervention coverage, food supply, economics, and demography. This tool is particularly useful for nutrition champions at the country-level, as it presents a wide range of evidence needed to assess country progress in improving nutrition and nutrition-related outcomes.

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2015

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International Food Policy Research Institute

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International Food Policy Research Institute. 2015. 2015 Nutrition country profile: Syrian Arab Republic. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150795

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Syria; Middle East; Asia; Western Asia; Anaemia; Sustainable Development Goals; Economic Development; Nutrition Policies; Health; Agricultural Policies; Indicators; Stunting; Sustainability; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Private Sector; Children; Wasting Disease (nutritional Disorder); Agricultural Development; Micronutrients; Breastfeeding; Overweight; Diabetes; Obesity; Food Systems; Climate Change

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English

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Open Access

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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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2014 Nutrition country profile: Syrian Arab Republic

2014International Food Policy Research Institute
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2014 Nutrition country profile: Syrian Arab Republic

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2014

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International Food Policy Research Institute

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International Food Policy Research Institute. 2014. 2014 Nutrition country profile: Syrian Arab Republic. In Global nutrition report 2014: Actions and accountability to accelerate the world’s progress on nutrition. Supplementary Online Material. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150272

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Syria; Middle East; Southwestern Asia; Asia; Western Asia; Birth Weight; Anaemia; Nutrition Policies; Indicators; Stunting; Malnutrition; Nutrition; Trace Elements; Food Supply; Children; Mortality; Poverty; Breastfeeding

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English

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Open Access

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Agriculture for Nutrition and Health

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Economic impacts of climate change in Syria

2013Breisinger, Clemens; Zhu, Tingju; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Nelson, Gerald C.; Robertson, Richard D.; Funes, José; Verner, Dorte
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Economic impacts of climate change in Syria

There is broad consensus among scientists that climate change is altering weather patterns around the world. However, economists are only beginning to develop comprehensive tools that allow for the quantification of such weather changes on countries’ economies and people. This paper presents a modeling suite that links the downscaling of global climate models, crop modeling, global economic modeling, and sub-national-level dynamic computable equilibrium modeling. Important to note is that this approach allows for decomposing the potential global and local economic effects on countries, including various economic sectors and different household groups. We apply this modeling suite to Syria, a relevant case study given the country’s location in a region that is consistently projected to be among those hit hardest by climate change. We find that, despite a certain degree of endogenous adaptation, local impacts of climate change (through declining yields) are likely to affect Syria beyond the agricultural sector and farmers and also reduce economy-wide growth and incomes of urban households in the long term. The overall effects of global climate change (through higher food prices) are also negative, but some farmers may reap the benefit of higher prices. Combining local and global climate change scenarios shows welfare losses across all rural and urban household groups, whereas the poorest household groups are the hardest hit.

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2013

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Breisinger, Clemens; Zhu, Tingju; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Nelson, Gerald C.; Robertson, Richard D.; Funes, José; Verner, Dorte

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Breisinger, Clemens; Zhu, Tingju; Al-Riffai, Perrihan; Nelson, Gerald C.; Robertson, Richard; Funes, José; Verner, Dorte. 2013. Economic impacts of climate change in Syria. Climate Change Economics 4(1): 1350002. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010007813500024

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Syria; Middle East; Northern Africa; Western Asia; Climate Change; Development; Growth; Modelling; Drought; Poverty; Resilience

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English

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Limited Access

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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