Food Security in Saudi Arabia (Case Study: Wheat, Barley, and Poultry)

Yosef Alamri^1, and Abdulaziz Al-Duwais¹

¹Department of Agricultural Economics, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Yosef Alamri and Abdulaziz Al-Duwais. Food Security in Saudi Arabia (Case Study: Wheat, Barley, and Poultry). Journal of Food Security. 2019; 7(2):36-39. doi: 10.12691/JFS-7-2-2

Abstract

This study tries to identify methods to achieve food security for the essential food commodities in Saudi Arabia. In addition, we studied the current situation by estimating the size of the inventory and the coefficient of food security for the most critical strategic food commodities. We forecast the demand for wheat, barley, and poultry during 2017-2025. We also estimate food security, food gap, strategic stock, and self-sufficiency coefficient. The result shows a positive effect of wheat and poultry while barely had an adverse impact.

Keywords

food gap, strategic stock, self-sufficiency, Saudi Arabia

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