Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact: Ensuring Adequate Food Supply in the MENA Area

The general transmission of COVID-19 has had basic social, economic, and political impacts all over the world. The pandemic disturbed worldwide exchange and supply anchors because of lockdowns, causing broad financial results. This paper analyzes the effects of the pandemic on food security in the MENA nations (2012–2022), utilizing information from global reports, the World Bank, and FAO. The review utilizes Johansen Cointegration tests to recognize long-haul connections among factors and Fully Modified Least Square (FMOLS) to quantify their size. The outcomes of the Johansen Cointegration tests expose a prolonged cointegrating connection between the variables and food security in MENA nations. Furthermore, FMOLS analysis underscores the negative impact of COVID-19 on food security in these nations. On the other hand, factors such as climate change (indicated by CO2 emissions), inflation rates, and agricultural land availability exhibit a detrimental effect on food security within the MENA region. Considering these discoveries, the review places a few strategy suggestions and proposals. It highlights the basic for MENA legislatures and policymakers to reconsider arrangements relating to food security, cultivating versatility to unanticipated emergencies and inventory network disturbances that might linger not too far off.