تحديات قطاع الصناعات الغذائية في الجزائر و تحديات الأمن الغذائي في ظل جائحة كورونا

الملخص EN

The agro-food sector is one of the most important economic sectors in any country, due to its effective role in generating added values and contributing to achieving food security, which has become an issue, especially after the Corona pandemic.

this study aims to highlight the challenges of the food industry sector in Algeria, especially in the COVID-19 pandemic that has caused an unprecedented global crisis accompanied by food security concerns around the world.

this study found that the agro-food sector is characterized by significant productivity instability, high reliance on foreign markets due to a lack of local food production, in addition to the fluctuation of food product prices due to their association with fluctuations in global markets, which weakened the sector’s contribution to achieving food security.

Algeria is among the countries that have been exposed, due to the Corona pandemic, to a high level of food demand risks due to the relatively high average per capita share of spending on food and the relatively high dependence on food imports.