The Price We Pay: Why Prices in Lebanon Go Up, But Rarely Down
With more than a million displaced and food insecurity rising, Lebanon must build the price governance that stops crisis profiteering.
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Doctor’s Orders: Keep Smoking to Fund the State
How Lebanon’s treasury got hooked on tobacco profits at the public’s expense.
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Lebanon’s Water Strategy: Drowning in Promises, Thirsting for Action
Plans for new dams, canals, and treatment plants will fail without governance reform, pollution control, and demand management
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Bread at Risk: Securing Lebanon’s Nutritional Staple Amid Rising Crises
Politicians must uphold the most basic promise of governance – to feed the people.
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Fields of Ruin: Lebanese Farmers’ Scorched Harvest
How the war impacted Lebanon’s food supply chain and how to fix it.
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Broken Branches: Lebanon’s Disappearing Forests
Rapid urbanisation, illegal logging, and wildfires whittling away at country’s wooded areas
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Russian Roulette: Ukraine exposes Lebanon’s dangerous food security game
The Ukrainian crisis is merely the latest alarming threat to Lebanese food security in recent years. It follows on the heels of the country’s economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Beirut Port explosion – a series of unambiguous warning shots
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Broken Bread: Lebanon’s Half-Baked Wheat Subsidy
Recent $150 million World Bank loan another step into the debt abyss without long-term food security strategy
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Adapt Or Trapped: The Urgent Need For Climate Change Adaptation In Lebanon
Climate change could ruin Lebanon; adaptation must be central to any recovery plan
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Get In Gear: Unleashing the Potential of Lebanese Cooperatives
Lebanon’s short-sighted economy has chased profits for the few at the expense of the gener- al public, resulting in almost three quarters of wealth being owned by 10 percent of the population
