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Video | Hibiscus for your heart
Mostafa Mostafa Mohamed | Well known for lowering blood pressure, hibiscus is especially loved during Ramadan
Video | A handful of harankash
Mostafa Mostafa Mohamed | Both sweet and sour, harankash — or goldenberries — are fun to peel and eat straight from the street
Climate change strikes another crop in Egypt: Olive harvest drops by half
Nada Arafat | “If they’re too expensive, [people] just won’t buy them”
After subsidy cuts price them out of diesel, farmers in mountains of Qena turn to solar energy for groundwater
Nada Arafat and Omaima Ismail | Under the scorching heat of Upper Egypt, between lands that vibrate in hues of green and lands awash
How is our food security holding up in the pandemic? An interview with agriculture professor Nader Nour Eddin
Osman El Sharnoubi | If the pandemic has shown us anything, it’s that we don’t produce a large portion of our food.
Battle of the strawberries
Nada Arafat | Who stands to win in the battle between exporters and local farmers after a cut in strawberry price?
Gone with the wind: The flotation’s impact on Egyptian exports
Mohamed Ramadan and Sara Seif Eddin | "We import the buttons, we import the zippers, then we cheer when we export the ready-to-wear shirt"
How Egypt’s water feeds the Gulf
Nada Arafat and Saker El Nour | 10 percent of Egypt's Nile water is allocated for Gulf food security
Looking for the root causes of the potato crisis
Hadeer El-Mahdawy and Nada Arafat | While state figures consider the crisis to be resolved, others see the problem as ongoing
 
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Opinion
Mohamed Gad
The ‘genetic modification’ of interest rates in Egypt
How depending on imported GMO seeds has undercut IMF ‘reform’
Amro Ali
A frightening vision: On plans to rebuild the Alexandria Lighthouse
It's no easy feat to restore the seventh wonder of the ancient world, but then along came modern-day
Mahmoud MM Riad
Erasing History: Why demolishing the NDP building is a mistake
As I type this article, I can see the bulldozers start to tear apart the building which once paid host
 
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News
New LE150 bn program aims to support small agricultural, industrial businesses
Cabinet approves organic farming bill
Egypt bans rice exports
Egypt revives agriculture scheme in Sudan’s strife-ridden Blue Nile State
Ahead of New Suez Canal inauguration, gov’t moves to complete next canal project
Enviro Ministry warns ‘black cloud’ will hit on Friday
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