National Food Security in the Sudan measurements and implications

Abstract

The principal objective of this research is to measure (assess) the extent and nature of the national food security in the Sudan during 1998s and I990s_ The research is built-on an introduction, three chapters and conclusion. The first chapter reviews the concepts of food security, the main forms and approaches of food insecurity, and selected studies deal with the question of the measurenzent of national food security in the Sudan. The second chapter provides an outlook of the food and agriculture, including the origin and development of the “ bread basket ” strategy, in the Sudan. Then chapter three, which constitutes the core section of the research, provides a preliminarily evaluation of the state of food security in the Sudan based on of a set of criteria associated with levels and degrees of" sufliciency, stability, autonomy, equity and sustainability. The research concludes to a “ national Zood securitv composite indicator ” of 48.23 %. which in turn, reveals an exciting as well as policy-oriented results and implications of certain amount of relevance to food security strategies at the national level.