ARB 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Baklava, Khubz, Food Security
12 Jul 2018
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Food security (arab organization for agriculture development 2010) Statistics show that food exports in arab countries have seen a jump of. 19. 8% from 9. 6 billion us dollars in 2007 to 11. 5 billion dollars in 2009: this jump is positive representation of food production in the arab world. Arab countries depend heavily on imported food, particular wheat. Population growth, rising incomes, and climate change will only increase their dependency on wheat imports, thereby making arab countries even more exposed to international market volatility. A recent world bank study, the grain chain: food security and managing import supply chain (wisc) and some possible remedies (strategic reserves, cost savings on logistic, partnerships). Efficiency improvements to the supply chain can improve food security wheat imports in arab countries, (cid:494) identifies key bottlenecks in the wheat- last 20 years. But because nearly all of the country(cid:495)s available fresh water and arable land is already used for agriculture, further expansion of the grain harvest is unlikely.
