Foreseeing the future of Arab food security under the accession of (WTO)

Abstract

AbstractFood security topic has a great importance at the level of per capita, society and state as it is related to the social and national security so that most governments around the world have given an exceptional concern in producing and providing food to the residents taking into account quantity, quality and price. Governments of advanced countries have shown a considerable interest through the production of food and providing a surplus of food in addition to that maintaining the strategy of grain stockpile through which it can dominate the developed world. While most of the developed countries and Arab countries were not efficient in developing the agricultural sector, the contracts of agricultural development have been lost, it is well to mention that the absence of food security also the deterioration of Arab agricultural production are both considered as a real indicators in aggravating the situation when the Arab food gap started to increase until it reached the end of the first decade of the third millennium. With a percentage estimated by 60% of the population’s need. The risks of Arab food security are increasing and that’s because of the dominance of the advanced countries on the agricultural production convention and monopolizing it under various pretexts as intellectual property rights and agricultural treaties are good examples of the pretexts. On the other hand the monopoly of the advanced countries and the food-producing countries to the surplus of food and world grain stockpiling strategy which in turn started to transfer large amounts of it for the production of biofuels , as well as speculation in grain markets which led to the rising of global food prices and also high prices of the import bill which cost the Arab countries tens of billion of dollars.

Keywords

wto