The role of water in achieving Arab food security - the basins of the Euphrates and Tigris

. Mohammed Mundher Jalal, Dr

	The role of water in achieving Arab food security - the basins of the Euphrates and Tigris
Journal of The Iraqi University
Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 35, 2016, Pages 691-720
Author
Dr . Mohammed mundher jalal
Abstract
Abstract (Importance of the study) has the issue of food security in the Arab world, increasingly important in today's world, particularly that achieving water security is a strategic Arab goal, and as the water security and food security constitute the pillars essential to the security of the Arab Economic, it is important to understand the implications of security Arab food, and so out of the close relationship between the Arab water security and food security, which highlights the importance of water and the need to use it properly controls a strategic element in the Arab food security, the latter is determined by success in achieving water security. Arab and the economy in general depends on the agriculture sector, and is the agricultural activity and the degree of evolution of a factor in the achievement of internal security, where it occupies this activity in Iraq, for example (under study) accounted for 33.9% by 2004. The same applies for many of the other Arab countries and that its reliance on this activity ranged (up or down) and in spite of those agricultural potential, we find that the Arab world is unable to agricultural production enough to meet the Arab demand for food, especially with the increasing continuous population which pays Arab countries to compensate those needs through imports the food gap was born over time. Perhaps at the forefront of the reasons for that gap inadequate water supplies that are relied upon to achieve the agricultural wealth, as well as excessive and irrational use of water resources available. Since the water resources constitutes the main base in narrowing the Arab food gap, and one of the important factors identified for agricultural production, the Arab world, especially Iraq suffers from the problem of foreign sources for its water, most of its agricultural land depends on irrigation, especially in the basins of the Tigris and Euphrates in order to cannot be doing the rain I said annual volatility and rising Temperatures where 2008 saw a decrease in rainfall by 30% from what it was in the past years, turn indicators confirm get serious drought and loss of water levels in various areas. As well as those of water problems that plagued Iraq with the State of upstream Turkey, which studies for the year 2009 the International Organization of research that suggest Iraq will lose imports Tigris and Euphrates rivers in full by 2040 and that the sharp decrease in water quotas hyphen within the Euphrates basin on the one hand and to the absence of appropriate rationalization consumer amounts hyphen water where more than 60% of the citizens of Iraqis use of non-potable water. To create a negative effects beyond Iraq and Syria to reach the Arab Gulf countries that will suffer in the near future of the state of ongoing decrease water. )- Objectives of the study). 1- Statement of the main challenges imposed by Turkey on Iraq and many of the Arab countries in the field of water policy which followed. 2- Develop Iraqi water policy to be clear and precise to invest in water resources optimally efficient administration and management. 3- Develop a common Arab Water plan to keep the Arab economic security and reduce internal food gaps.

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