The President of the Tunisian Center for Global Security Studies called for taking the necessary measures to deal with it.
More than 3 million Tunisians are threatened with food insecurity, of which 1.5 million will have to seriously face this specter.
This was said on Saturday by the president of the Tunisian Center for Global Security Studies (CTESG), Ezzeddine Zayani, referring to a report on the state of food security in 2022, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), according to the Tunis Afrique Presse agency (TAP/official).
Speaking at a conference organized in Tunis on the theme “Food security and sovereignty and the right to food in Tunisia”, Zayani warned of the seriousness of the current food situation in the world and especially in Tunisia. , which has become, according to him, seriously threatened, calling for the necessary measures and precautions to be taken to deal with it.
“The simplest dishes are very expensive today, due to inflation and the deterioration of the purchasing power of the citizen”, he said, urging the parties concerned to think, urgently, of new solutions and to return to the foundations of Tunisia’s agricultural policy established since the first years of independence, according to TAP.
The President of CTESG recalled, in this context, the change in the agricultural situation due to climate change which has generated a great shortage of water, advocating the use of seawater desalination and the support of farmers responsible for food security by encouraging them to maintain their activities to avoid what he described as “food poverty”.
“We are witnessing today, because of the Russian-Ukrainian war, the emergence of a new world in which countries suffering from food insecurity find themselves forced to align their policies with those of the major food-producing powers. wheat”, he underlined, recommending to pay the necessary attention to the agricultural sector in Tunisia whose growth experienced, in 2022, a drop of 3%. A rate that he described as alarming, we read from the same source.
