The population factor and its impact on achieving food security in Iraq

Abstract

Achieving food security is a prerequisite for the success of economic development and complementary to political, military and economic security, as well as ensuring the minimum food needs of the population. And based on the importance of food for the population of Iraq and its relationship to their size and population growth, and the attempt to provide food to ensure that their needs are met and to avoid falling under the pressures of the major food-producing countries, the study aimed to identify the reality of the population and its impact on achieving food security in Iraq, and the study reached a set of results, most notably: Iraq suffers from a dangerous decline in its food security, which calls for every patriotic and honorable person to stand firm to advance it, otherwise the catastrophe will not spare anyone, whether present or future generations, just as the reality of food security began to deteriorate in the early seventies, and the percentage of self-sufficiency was one of the main and strategic food groups It was very high, but there was a collapse in it in the eighties decade, and the self-sufficiency of the grain group declined to 31%, then it witnessed an increase in the nineties and mid-2000s, when it reached 53% and 56% of this group, respectively, but this level It is still not reassuring, due to the widening gap in the quantity of food commodities.