Food security and conflict in the ESCWA region
By: Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
Series: United Nations publication
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Food security; Government policy; Ernährungssicherstellung; Mitgliedsstaaten
Description: "This report argues that, up to a certain extent, the conflict-affected countries and territories of the ESCWA region can promote food security nationally. What the region is in need of, however, is greater regional cooperation for three reasons, namely: (a) conflict-affected countries and territories do not have the fiscal space and public administrative capacity needed to finance and introduce food security programmes; (b) prevailing political constraints prevent existing cleavages between ruling elites and disenfranchised factions within the society from being easily overcome; and (c) the potential benefits from investments into better food security are greater when taking advantage of regional cooperation, given that the numerous threats to food security carry a regional dimension and, therefore, require a regional solution in line with the subsidiarity principle."--Introd.
Notes: "13 September 2010."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-134).

Bahrain ; Egypt ; Iraq ; Jordan ; Kuwait ; Lebanon ; Oman ; Palestine ; Qatar ; Saudi Arabia ; The Sudan ; Syria ; United Arab Emirates ; Yemen

Also freely available online.
Table of contents: title: Food security assessment in the ESCWA region; title: Conflict and food security nexus; title: Regional policy .