Analysis of the effect of the war between Russia and Ukraine on selected indicators of the wheat economy in Egypt

Kohanhoosh Nejad, Roohollah; Makki Hamzah, Abbas

doi:10.22059/jcountst.2023.366850.1069

Analysis of the effect of the war between Russia and Ukraine on selected indicators of the wheat economy in Egypt

Document Type : Original

Authors

Roohollah Kohanhoosh Nejad ¹

Abbas Makki Hamzah ²

¹ West Asian Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran

² Department of Economics, Faculty of Administration and Economics, University of Kufa, Najaf, Iraq.

10.22059/jcountst.2023.366850.1069

Abstract

The current study in the framework of realism paradigm based on international political economy and emphasizing the importance of the concept of food security has investigated the impact of the war between Russia and Ukraine on the wheat economy in Egypt through the analysis of indicators of food gap, self-sufficiency and foreign dependence. The Egyptian government has designed a package of measures to reduce the pressure of the crisis on its citizens, one of the most important of which is to encourage wheat farmers to produce more by increasing the guaranteed purchase price and completing strategic sheds and increasing storage capacity. Continuing to expand the area under cultivation of cereals, especially wheat, through horizontal development, continuing to support scientific and technical studies related to wheat, especially new varieties, diversifying imported markets and reducing the percentage of losses of produced and imported wheat are among the most important suggestions of this study.

Keywords

Ukraine

Russia

wheat

Egypt

Subjects

Economics

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