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QCP 027 | Souhad A. Zaki, Food Economist | Understanding the State of Global Food Security


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Souhad Abou Zaki is a Curious Economist and a Rural Development Enthusiast. She is currently a Senior Admissions officer residing in Lebanon at Notre Dame University, Louaize. Souhad works as a Lecturer in Economics, teaching undergrad courses in Microeconomics, Managerial Economics, and International Economics. She is also a Research Consultant and Proposal Writer for Rural Entrepreneurs, helping conduct research on rural development-related topics, which include women's economic empowerment, food security, and social entrepreneurship. She holds a Degree in Economics from the American University of Beirut and a master's in Agricultural Economics and Development. She is currently pursuing another degree in food security.

SHOW NOTES

SEG 1

  • Lebanese Civil War
  • Food Crisis of 2007 - 2008
  • Food Security
  • World Food Waste Statistics
  • Intervention from other countries
  • SEG 2

    • Successes of her intervention work
  • Sri Lanka Food Security Crisis
  • Causes and Outlook of Increasing Food Security Crisis
  • What is food security?
  • How to create more food security as individual households
  • Hospitality as it leads to over abundance
  • Community Supportive Agriculture
  • Incompetence vs Optimism
  • Cronyism
  • SEG 3

    • How to encourage the youth to pursue agricultural entrepreneurship?
  • The state of the banking sector in Lebanon
  • Subsidies for Agriculture Sectors (Pros and Cons)
  • What is resilience?
  • Localism
  • Lebanese vs Filipino food
  • SEG 4

    • Food Policy
  • Poverty and Famines
  • The downside of over specialization
  • essential soft skills for the 21st century
  • Effective stress management techniques (snippet)
  • Essential Technical skills
    • cloud computing

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