Absolute food security is defined as a country's ability to produce food in a way that exceeds or matches the requirements of its local population, while relative food security is that there is the ability of a number of countries or one country to produce or provide food commodities in full or in part, as this concept depends on The process of measuring the quantities of food available for the lives of individuals or citizens in the future to suffice their needs of food or to ensure that it is not interrupted or lacking for any factor such as drought or the outbreak of wars.

The Food Security Organization of the United Nations defines food security as the access by each member of society to his need of healthy food of good quality in a stable manner, in order to be able to live his life in a healthy manner. Hunger alone is not the only factor that must be taken into account, but food security is getting more and more complicated When nutritional needs enter the picture, that is, even when the stomach is full, poor food quality can cause individuals, families, and societies to have deficits in vital macronutrients.

Food security is among the strategic security priorities of countries, and the United Nations Committee on World Food Security defines this term as the possibility for all people at all times to have adequate, safe and nutritious food, and the most important causes of food insecurity are: Chronic diseases such as HIV To reduce the absorption of nutrients, food security instability arises from environmental factors or human influence.

The importance of food security for the third world countries: the population of the third world countries is constantly increasing, and there is no doubt that this population increase means an increase in the demand for food and that is why countries must provide food in larger quantities, that the cultivated areas of it are already a small percentage, due to several factors where there is no vision Comprehensive and successful for their governments to work on the reclamation and cultivation of new agricultural lands, and what happened in most of these countries from the migration of agricultural labor to the cities.

The high standard of living of the rural class, and this is through helping rural women in the development process within the scope of agriculture. The concept of food security and its achievement is closely linked to the political decision, as events have proven that countries that have not been able to achieve the concept of food security in them are mostly countries subject to the forces grand.

Where there are many challenges facing the third world countries, as we mentioned, including: climatic changes to the planet, scarcity of arable water sources, encouraging investment in order to obtain additional income for families, abundance factor: - that is, its presence in the country's private markets sufficiently without scarcity or scarcity With its prices in line with the level of entry of citizens in that country.

And because achieving food security is at the top of the priorities of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture, and constitutes its most urgent challenges, we must support the Ministry in its quest to build the strategic food stock to secure and provide basic food commodities at moderate prices, and even the wealthier regions, such as the Gulf states, are increasingly dependent on world markets to meet their food needs. This puts it at long-term risk, as the global food trade system becomes less reliable.

The Arab Gulf states import most of their food needs, as food imports constitute about 85% of the food consumed in the region, amid expectations that these imports will witness a rise in spending in the near future than they were in 2014 at 23.6 billion US dollars, and this flow is attributed to Two main factors: the increase in the population in the Arab Gulf states and the increase in food prices.