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

GUEST BIO

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