Jordan leads regional project to enhance food security

Jordan leads regional project to enhance food security

AMMAN: Funding and water remain two problems to be tackled despite Jordan announcing a set of technical and bureaucratic procedures that constitute the foundations of a food security enhancement project. The kingdom reached out to donors and international lenders to secure funding for the project, which also involves Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. The Jordanian government’s establishment of a “food security council” to work alongside the National Committee for Food Security will help mitigate the country’s vulnerability to global food crises and climate change. Jordan launched its 2022-2024 executive plan in late August, part of the 2021-2030 National Strategy for Food Security. Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh has described the strategy as “the first of its kind in the kingdom, an implementation of King Abdullah’s directives to mark 2021 as a year of food security, and to make Jordan a regional model for food security.” Al-Khasawneh said at the time that Jordan had taken a number of measures in food security which had resulted in upgrading Jordan’s ranking on the global food security index “to 49th worldwide in 2021 from the 62nd place in 2020.” Agriculture ministers from Syria, Iraq and Lebanon have met recently in Amman and agreed to support Jordan’s