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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
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