The impact of agricultural policies in achieving food security, wheat and rice crops in Egypt and Morocco for the period(1995-2020)

Abstract

The issue of food security is one of the most important core issues that are receiving increasing attention for its economic, social and political impacts on the stability of countries. Therefore, these countries (Egypt, Morocco) have adopted a set of agricultural policies, and these policies are embodied in an integrated system of procedures and legislation enacted by the state in order to achieve renewed goals included in agricultural development plans. These goals often aim to increase agricultural production to achieve food security, and achieving the maximum degree of self-sufficiency. The analysis was done using the Eviews 10 program and the multiple linear regression method , a number of important tests were used to detect the unit root in time series, as well as the Phillips-Peron test, which takes into account errors with heterogeneous variance and integration test. In both (Egypt and Morocco), in addition to the weak policies followed in the aforementioned countries, so there are a number of proposals to reduce the gap, which is to rely on scientific methods in preparing production plans in order to achieve the set goals and reach self-sufficiency for these crops and then achieve food security in those countries.