\u200fAs we mentioned in the introduction on the subject of food security, which is one of the most important vital and national issues for any\u200fCountry that seeks to have full sovereignty and that it directly affects the citizens, and these effects are reflected negatively and positively
\n\u200fBy changing the food security index, so we need here to go back a little and start defining the concept of food security: The term food
\n\u200fSecurity refers to the availability of food for people without any shortage, then we can say that food security has actually been achieved
\n\u200fWhen we reach a stage in which the individual is not afraid of hunger or that he is not exposed to it, and is used as a criterion to prevent
\n\u200fThe occurrence of food shortages in the future or its interruption due to several factors considered Dangerous, including political conflicts
\n\u200fAnd wars, climate change and other problems that hinder the availability of this matter.
\n\u200fIn fact of the matter, it is possible to divide the concept of food security into two main levels or two phases, if you will, namely the absolute
\n\u200fAnd the relative, so the absolute is defined as the fact that a single country produces food within it at a level equal to or higher than the local
\n\u200fDemand and its rates, and it can often be considered that it achieves the concept of complete self-sufficiency. As for relative food security,
\n\u200fIt refers to the extent of the state’s ability to produce and find what the people or individuals need in terms of goods and food, in part, in
\n\u200fThe pursuit and development in order to reach perfection.
\n\u200fAs for the focus of our discussion here, “Iraq” and the level of food security in the country, unfortunately and for a long time, food security,
\n\u200fWhich is the cornerstone of Iraqi national security and the actual heart of the country’s true sovereignty, did not receive special care,
\n\u200fOr attention in proportion to the size of the issue by the successive Iraqi governments over the course of Long periods. It continued to depend
\n\u200fIn most of its food sources on imports from abroad, and the food security system was not activated as necessary, perhaps due to the many conflicts
\n\u200fAnd wars raging in the country over the past four decades overtly and for two decades before it in a foggy and unclear manner,
\n\u200fAnd let us not forget that one of the most important causes of conflict is the loss and deterioration of food security. Therefore, the relationship
\n\u200fBetween food security and community security “a conflict free society” is a reciprocal relationship, one of which affects the other adversely.
\n\u200fOf course, the food security system in Iraq has been greatly affected and started to deteriorate since 1991, as the multilateral economic blockade
\n\u200fOn Iraq by a UN decision caused great damage in the period between 1990 and 2003. The food security situation has deteriorated. After 1996,
\n\u200fThe oil-for-food program led to the easing of the embargo somewhat by allowing the use of oil exports under United Nations control in importing food,
\n\u200fBut the food security situation remained worse than it was before 1990, because the idea of exchanging oil for food in itself constitutes
\n\u200fThe opposite of the concept of food security.
\n\u200fOf course, the situation continued until the year 2003 and the end of the UN blockade imposed on the country, but !!
\n\u200fIt was assumed and very obvious, according to what was circulated about Iraq after the overthrow of the regime,
\n\u200fAnd how the situation in the country would change from one state to another, better, that the governments that came
\n\u200fTo rescue the Iraqis and pull them out of what they were in were supposed to work seriously to secure the livelihood
\n\u200fOf this citizen in a rich country like Iraq ,
\n\u200fAnd securing the Iraqi citizen from even thinking about the issue of food, and that a day may come when he will not
\n\u200fBe able to provide food for his children, and what happened was the exact opposite. Food security has deteriorated
\n\u200fDue to the politicians being busy with sharing wealth and political gains, the agricultural system began to decline<\/p>\n
\u200fAnd is still collapsing until this moment, the collapse of the industrial system and other reasons, which in its entirety
\n\u200fProduced a country that today suffers from a real problem, which is the problem of complete food insecurity if the situation continues as it is.
\n\u200fOne of the real examples that warns of food insecurity in the country is the population increase from 23.5 million people in the year 2000 to about
\n\u200f39 million people in 2019, which means an increase of 66 percent within 20 years, and the problem here is not the population increase in itself,
\n\u200fBut the remaining of the food supplies the same. Without being able to keep pace with this increase, and here the danger of not paying attention to
\n\u200fThe food security file, and also examples that can be put forward in this regard, “Iraq imports more than 60% of its food needs. Therefore, in the
\n\u200fEvent of shocks in the global food supply chains or the collapse of the state budget and the creation of Almost total dependence in the food system
\n\u200fOn the state, the country would literally suffer from hunger if that happened.
\n\u200fIn conclusion, food security in Iraq is based on three main axes:
\n\u200fThe nutritional gap.
\n\u200f-Ration card.
\n\u200f-Self-sufficiency.
\n\u200fWe pause here so as not to linger on the dear reader, and in the third part we will complete a simplified and detailed explanation of the three axes.<\/p>\n
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