Reporter

Yasmine Shaker

Food & Agriculture Reporter

Writes about food from the field to the table — wheat imports and food security, farming and irrigation, prices and subsidy policy, and Egypt's restaurant and dining scene. The beat holds both ends of the subject together, because the cost of bread and the water it takes to grow are the same story. Agriculture reporting starts from the water arithmetic, since water rather than land is the constraint that disqualifies most of the intuitive answers.