An Analytical Study of the Reality of Food Security in Syria

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 production 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.

An analytical study of the reality of food in Syria during the years 2011-2012 and the prospects for demand for food

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 thousand 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.

The Syrian Water Situation – An Analytical Study with Future Prospects

This research aims to shed a light on the current state of the Syrian water resource through studying the present resources and analyzing the demand on them and their availability during the period (1992-2012). This study focues at deriving the future forecast on the development of the demand on these resources in order to better conceptualize their current state. This in turn will lead to concluding a set of results and recommendations that could contribute to improve the state of the water resource in the sense of achieving sustainability and prohibiting its depletion through the efficient and planned usage.

The reality of agricultural activity in Lattakia (2005-2014)

Food security including its economic, technical and social dimensions is considered to be one of the issues that received wide attention, this food security issue is closely related to the agricultural sector, therefore agricultural sector occupies a very important position in the economics of countries, especially developing countries, including Syria. the agricultural sector has achieved a great success in Syria during its ongoing development, but recently many local and international changes has appeared. These changes had a lot of challenges that must be treated with suitable mechanisms . So This research aims to show the reality of plant and animal production in Latakia, and to acknowledge the most important human and natural components ingredients that are available in agricultural sector, this research aims to find out obstacles and problems that agricultural sector suffers from, and to find perfect solutions for them. It also aims to discover the best way to increase Agricultural Productions in latakia. and that contributes to achieving the agricultural development in Syria providing people of Syria , the food security In addition to economic one .especially in this crisis that gripped Syria.