Food security is a subject of high relevance worldwide and particularly in Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMCs), where agricultural production variability and structural dependency from imports are major issues that led to dramatic consequences for a large part of the population in occasion of the recent upsurge in international food prices. The present paper intends to highlight the main economic issues affecting food security in a selection of Southern Mediterranean Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), in order to improve policy guidance. Based on an extensive literature review conducted, a reduced set of core indicators was selected and calculated, so as to provide empirical evidence of their food security and vulnerability structural conditions, as well as of their development over a twenty-year time span.

Assessing food security: economic issues in Southern Mediterranean Countries

CAMANZI, LUCA;SOLAROLI, LAURA;MALORGIO, GIULIO
2014

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Food security is a subject of high relevance worldwide and particularly in Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMCs), where agricultural production variability and structural dependency from imports are major issues that led to dramatic consequences for a large part of the population in occasion of the recent upsurge in international food prices. The present paper intends to highlight the main economic issues affecting food security in a selection of Southern Mediterranean Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia), in order to improve policy guidance. Based on an extensive literature review conducted, a reduced set of core indicators was selected and calculated, so as to provide empirical evidence of their food security and vulnerability structural conditions, as well as of their development over a twenty-year time span.
2014
Sustainability of the agri-food system: Strategies and Performances. Proceedings of the 50th SIDEA Conference, Lecce, Chiostro dei Domenicani, 26-28 September 2013
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Luca Camanzi; Laura Solaroli; Giulio Malorgio
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