Iraqi policy towards the global food crisis in light of the war between Russia and Ukraine

Abstract

This research aimed to deal with the effects of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the Iraqi economy in general, and in particular the effects related to the issue of food security The local market needs of foodstuffs, especially grains, as well as the measures taken by the Iraqi government to confront the repercussions of this war with regard to providing food security for the Iraqi people, and then to clarify the extent of the effectiveness of these measures and their ability to provide foodstuffs to the local market in light of this crisis. As for the research method, we relied on the inductive approach because it depends on reading, reading, and searching for the reality of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the impact of this conflict on global economic indicators, which poses a threat to global food security, and applying it to Iraq to see the extent of its impact on this conflict, and the extent of the government's ability Iraqi Ali to secure its food needs, and then put forward - in the last part of the research - a set of results that the researcher reached, And one of the most important of these results is that this war was a reason for rearranging all scenes on the world stage, especially the food scene, where many countries depend on imported goods from these two countries, so these countries resorted to searching for new markets to secure their food needs, and among the results of this war On Iraq, it showed the size of the crisis that the Iraqi economy is suffering from, and that the policies adopted by the Iraqi government to confront this crisis did not help in any way to stabilize the markets, but rather they are formalities.