ELZUBI to Al Jazeera and the Prolonged Food Crisis
Is the Arab strategic reserve sufficient?

Food security is not merely grain in a silo… it is an entire chain of supply, energy, and fertilizers.

Realistic assessment: uneven, and mostly insufficient.

• Jordan maintains a wheat reserve covering about eight months of domestic consumption.
• Saudi Arabia and Egypt usually hold reserves between three and six months.
• Most countries in the region keep stocks ranging from three to six months, some even less.

But the more accurate question should not be: “How many months are in the silo?”
Rather:

• Do we have operational reserves of fertilizers and agricultural diesel?
• Do we have sufficient diversity in import ports, away from routes vulnerable to closure?

These components are the weakest link, and they are what should measure our true readiness.