The Reality of Food Security in the Arab World

The study concludes that the reality of food security in the Arab World is unstable and fluctuated; there is no self-sufficiency to cover the needs of the Arab states. In addition, food security is connected with the power of water security, as all water resources come from non-Arab states. Water shortage may lead to the shortage of food for Arab states (famines), poverty and divisions. Therefore, this affects the social security due to the emergence of unemployment, poverty and the inability to develop, and to sustain the infrastructures, the general services considered necessary for the Arab citizens. Rainfalls, desertification, drought and the weaknesses of technical abilities are the main reasons for decreasing food security; they increase food subordination or dependency, which become significant in the Arab states that rest on foreign countries to fill the food needs of their people, as the average of consumption is higher than the production. The study is divided into four parts: the introduction, the dilemmas of food security's concept, the relationship between food, water and social security, and food security threatens in the Arab World. © 2016 AESS Publications. All Rights Reserved.