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Food Security
2025-04-13
Assistant Instructor Abdul Majeed Mohammed Awwad
Upper Euphrates Center for Sustainable Development Research –University of Anbar
Food security is one of the most important contemporary issues that no country in the world can manage its political or administrative affairs unless it has self-sufficiency in food, which makes the state strong and solid in the face of external pressures and crises that lead to high prices in global markets, and from here food security can be achieved through the principle of sustainability and the development of generations before the development of resources, where all energies and minds are invested in order to sustain resources so that the benefit prevails for the generation Despite all the efforts made by international organizations, malnutrition and hunger continue to ravage millions of people, so food security can be achieved when all people have a decent and fair life. In response to rising hunger, the Committee on Food Security* embarked on a genuine reform process, endorsed by all CFS member states in 2009, with every man, woman and child alone or in community with others having access to material and economic support at all times. In order to counter rising hunger to embark on a genuine reform process, endorsed by all CFS member states in 2009, with the understanding that every man, woman and child alone or in community with others will have access to material and economic support at all times.
In light of the serious repercussions witnessed by the world, Iraq faced after 2003 important events that reflected on the deteriorating economic reality in the absence of a mechanism or systematic plan to advance the economic reality, so the public and private sectors suffered clear neglect that affected the political and economic decision, as well as that the state's dependence on imports with the spread of administrative corruption had a negative impact on the agricultural sector until this sector began to decay and end, and in September 2015, 193 countries in the world adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, through which all countries and stakeholders commit to focusing on people and achieving the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.
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GDP per capita and agricultural output for the period 2000-2019 |
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Years |
Population (individuals) |
GDP per capita at constant prices (million) |
GDP per capita at current prices (million) |
Agricultural output per capita at current prices (million) |
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2000 |
24085784 |
1.5 |
2.1 |
0.097 |
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2001 |
24813365 |
1.0 |
1.7 |
0.115 |
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2002 |
25564835 |
0.8 |
1.6 |
0.137 |
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2003 |
26340227 |
0.4 |
1.1 |
0.094 |
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2004 |
27139585 |
0.6 |
2.0 |
0.136 |
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2005 |
27962968 |
0.6 |
2.6 |
0.181 |
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2006 |
28810441 |
0.5 |
3.3 |
0.193 |
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2007 |
29682081 |
0.4 |
3.8 |
0.185 |
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2008 |
30577798 |
0.5 |
5.1 |
0.198 |
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2009 2010 2011 |
31496406 |
0.5 |
4.1 |
0.217 |
|
32437949 |
0.5 |
5.0 |
0.258 |
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33402567 |
0.7 |
6.5 |
0.297 |
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2012 2013 2014 |
34392179 |
0.7 |
7.4 |
0.305 |
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35438000 |
0.7 |
7.7 |
0.386 |
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|
36004000 |
0.7 |
7.4 |
0.356 |
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2015 2016 |
36933714 |
0.5 |
5.3 |
0.221 |
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36169123 |
0.5 |
5.4 |
0.217 |
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2017 |
37139519 |
0.6 |
6.0 |
0.178 |
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2018 2019 |
38124182 |
0.6 |
7.1 |
0.166 |
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39127889 |
0.6 |
7.1 |
0.224 |
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Source: - Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Planning, Statistical Collection for the years (2000-2019).
* The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) was established in 1974 and reformed in 2009 as an intergovernmental body responsible for reviewing and following up on food security and nutrition policies.
