The research aims to identify the reality of food in Syria during the 2011-2012 period
and compared to the situation before the crisis (2008-2010). The study showed that the
total cultivated area in Syria during the crisis amounted to about 4479 th
ousand hectares,
and the total lack of 323 thousand hectares from the pre-crisis period, as well as the
decreasing size of the vegetation of agricultural production during the same period
increased by 3081.2 thousand tons to score 11021.5 thousand tons, However, the
availability of vegetarian food and animal size increased overall during the period of crisis
by 923.7 thousand tons to score 18704.1 thousand tons, With regard to per capita food
shortage has been during the crisis period by 8 kg to score 864.8 kg while it was before the
crisis 872.8 kg, With regard to the value of the food gap turned out to be increased during
the crisis by 640.5 million dollars to up to 1727.2 million dollars,. And finally the study
showed that the demand for food will increase in Syria during the period 2016-2020, as
will 22832.5 thousand tons in 2020, so the size of the domestic production of Syria, to be
achieved in 2020 will be 18170.8 thousand tons.
This research aims to identify the reality of food security in Syria between the years 2006- 2010. The most important crops in Syria are grain crops, occupying 64.18% of the area of cultivated land. Wheat is the most important grain; it had product
ion growth rate of 2.24% between the years 2000- 2010. This is higher than wheat production growth rate not only in the Arab world but in the whole world. This production rate allowed Syria to achieve self-sufficiency in wheat 119.4%, potatoes 110.5%, legumes 168%, fruits 102.7, vegetables 146.9%, in addition to other products. The average per capita in Syria is 345.16 kg of grain per person which is greater than that in the Arab world by 36.17 kg. The value of food gap in Syria increased from 42.5 million dollars in 2006 to 1412.23 million dollars in 2010. This was due to the increase of grain food gap which reached 976.32 million dollars. It was still, however, within reasonable limits. The indicators of access to food in Syria were positive as the index of average individual share of local production per capita was higher than the index of food prices in 2007, 2008, and 2010. The true growth of individual share of local products per capita was positive in 2006 reaching 9.18%, but it shrank to 3.7% in 2010.
