Impact of Agricultural Policy on Reducing the Gap food and Ways to Achieve Food Security for Animal Products in Iraq for the Period 1990-2015.

Abstract

This study investigates the impact of agricultural policy on reducing the gap and ways to achieve food security in Iraq for the period (1990-2015). This study examines the impact of agricultural policy on reducing the gap and ways to achieve food security in Iraq for the period 1990-2015. The study of both red meat and poultry meat was considered as a major part of the community's food security. Two models were used in the analysis: the production policy model and the food gap model. In the production policy analysis, production was used as a dependent factor, consumption, And the coefficient of protection as independent factors. As for the food gap model, it was used as a dependent factor, production, local price for previous year, world price for previous year and consumption as independent factors. The regression function was applied to linear, logarithmic, logarithmic, and halved logarithmic variants. During its preference in terms of statistical and standard tests and their conformity to the logic of economic theory. The results of the analysis of the production policy of red meat and poultry meat showed that the consumption and import variable had   a significant effect, See the preparation of the population and the coefficient of protection was their influence in the moral red meat and insignificant in poultry meat.