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Tunisia Harvesting Stability: How Regional Integration Can Build a Food-Secure MENA
October 10, 2025
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Food insecurity is one of the most pressing and escalating challenges facing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Regional integration can play a key role in strengthening food systems and addressing shared regional vulnerabilities. Although the MENA region is home to just 6 percent of the world’s population, it accounts for over 12 percent of the world’s food insecure people. In 2023, 39.4 percent of the population faced moderate or severe food insecurity, while an additional 15.4 percent experienced severe food insecurity. This situation is even more acute in the least developed MENA countries, where an alarmingly high 28.8 percent of the population experienced severe food insecurity.
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