Food Security and The Current Situation in Iraq

Abstract

Food is the basis of human well-being. Increasing food production represents a
basic and important strategy to alleviate global food insecurity. But despite the
fact that world food production for the last century has remained ahead of
demand. About a billion people around the world do not have enough to eat.
Another billion people lack adequate nutrition. Food insecurity faces many
pressures on both sides of supply and demand. The most important of these
factors are housing growth, climate change, globalization, urbanization, and
diseases. In addition to other factors that cause a change in food consumption
patterns, many countries have resorted to approaches and policies to achieve food
security for them. They have tired of the approach of production support, the
liberalization of food trade, the policy of subsidizing consumption, in addition to
the micronutrient supply program. And starting to understand food security from
the perspective of shifting from the pillars to the tracks and addressing food
security by encouraging growth in the agricultural sectors and increasing
knowledge to implement the foundations of food security and to define foodborne
diseases and the correct management of urban centers.
Recently, international organizations have stressed the importance of
sustainability to preserve natural and environmental resources and agricultural
ecosystems, thus “achieving a comprehensive, food-secure and sustainable social
system.” Considering food security and sustainability is an integral part, as today
and in the future sustainable food systems will play a major role in maintaining
nutritional well-being and health, in addition to sustaining food security in the
future.