APRC's Senior Researcher Attends a Workshop on Food Security and Nutrition
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On March 1-2 APRC’s Senior Researcher Salome Gelashvili attended a regional learning workshop on Food Security and Nutrition organized by OXFAM in Dilijan, Armenia. The overall objective of the workshop was to improve the food security and nutrition policies in the South Caucasus region.
Salome presented findings of the APRC study “Assessing Food Security Data Relevance and Collection Mechanisms in the South Caucasus”. The goal of the study was to map the best international practices of food security data collection mechanisms and compare them to the existing data collection mechanisms in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The study identifies major gaps in data and develop specific recommendations for each country.
ISET-PI’s Giorgi Mzhavanadze Discusses Georgia’s Economic Development Prospects in Light of New Regional Security Threats
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The radicalization of Islam and the Russian-Turkish spat affect security of the South Caucasus energy supply corridor and shed new light on the prospects of Russian-Georgian economic relations. The challenges and opportunities related to the new security threads were the main topics of discussion at a forum organized by the Caucasian House. Hosted on February 27-28, 2015, the forum was held in the framework of the “Georgian-Russian Dialogue for Peace and Cooperation” project.
Speaking at this forum, ISET-PI’s Giorgi Mzhavanadze related his views about the macroeconomic situation in Georgia in the context of broader regional developments. In particular, he discussed recent trends in economic growth, monetary and fiscal policy, all of which were affected by external economic and political turbulence and the pressure it exerted on the Georgian lari.
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