مجلة الاقتصاد والتنمية المستدامة
Volume 6, Numéro 2, Pages 849-866
2023-09-01

Agrarian Policy, Impact On The Food Offer And Health: Case Of Algeria

Authors : Kaabache Rachida .

Abstract

Agriculture is a structured set that can serve individuals to satisfy their dietary needs, through a suitable agrarian policy. In Algeria, since the independence to date several reforms have been applied, starting by the self-management and more recently the agricultural development; nonetheless, the country remains depending on the exterior, as food imports went from almost 14% in 1975 to reach 23.54% in 2020 A situation worsened by a demographic transition, in one side, that can be translated in numbers by 44,3 million inhabitants in 2020, in addition to an epidemiologic one, with the increase of non-transmissible diseases, mainly; obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes…, which keep the country in a precarious situation as it faces the price increase of food products on international markets. This is why a review of the agrarian policy should be contemplated in order to overtake these issues. In this context, our article comes within a preventive approach proposing an analysis of the Algerian agrarian policies from the independence until today’s date, and their effects on both the food model and health, in addition to recommendations.

Keywords

Agrarian Policy ; Food Offer ; Food Model ; Health ; Algeria