حقائق حول الأمن الغذائي في الوطن العربي للفترة 2014-2018

الملخص EN

The study aimed to analyze the current situation of food security in the Arab world during the period 2014-2018, as well as the development of the quantity of production and consumption within the main groups of food, the food gap and the rate of self-sufficiency in the Arab countries, where the descriptive and analytical approach was used.

The study also relied mainly on data issued by the Arab Organization For agricultural development, and among the findings is that most Arab countries suffer from a food gap as a result of the lack of agricultural productive capacities of most Arab countries to meet the growing needs of demand for food commodities.

The development of the Arab food gap has made it a food security problem because it has transformed from a commercial problem that affects The Arab balance of payments refers to an economic problem that affects economic development, and then to a political problem, given that the provision of quantities of imported food commodities, but at the present time may lead to many possibilities of political pressure, so it is necessary to adopt integrated Arab agricultural policies to bridge the worsening food gap And achieving Arab food security.