دور التكامل الاقتصادي العربي في تحقيق الأمن الغذائي

Abstract

We discussed in our study the reality of the joint Arab action, and the regional integration experiences in the Arab world, and we stood on the fact that the achievements of this work have remained modest and limited and did not constitute a qualitative leap embodies the organic link between the Arab economies particularly the productive one. As we dealt with the concept of food security and the dimensions of the economic, political and social terms, as well as its association with some of other concepts. Our study also addressed the reality of Arab food security, as well as the Arab food gap, and the reasons behind the constant aggravation. We found that the food deficit in the Arab world has a significant correlation with the separation condition experienced, and the lack of the strategic integrated development planning at the national level, especially in the agricultural field, while regional and international economic bloc has become a tool to achieve economic and social development. The Arab countries have not been able so far, despite their possession of the elements of integration and economic unity, to get away from the Qatari character control on the economic plans of development, which prevent the Arab world from the full utilization of the available resources ( natural, human and financial), which led to the weakness of the productive efficiency of these resources, and to increase the food gap, and thus exacerbate the problem of food security in most Arab countries, which raises the need to enhance Arab economic integration as a strategy to achieve Arab food security.