Food strategy aims to store 11 commodities for upto 8 months

Doha, Qatar: The National Food Security Strategy 2030 aims to store 11 food commodities in quantities sufficient for consumption in Qatar for two to e...

Doha, Qatar: The National Food Security Strategy 2030 aims to store 11 food commodities in quantities sufficient for consumption in Qatar for two to eight months by improving and expanding the strategic reserve stock of essential commodities (yellow basket). The commodities include sugar, wheat, rice, and edible oil.

The strategy also aims to expand the strategic reserve stock of essential commodities for crises and disasters to store nine commodities (red basket) in quantities sufficient for three months of consumption.

A strategic stock of agricultural inputs will be created and maintained to store 13 types of agricultural inputs sufficient for two to eight months.

As per the strategy, an integrated food security alert system will be established to respond to the alert within 48 hours.

The second pillar of the strategy - strategic reserve and early warning systems - aims to enhance the resilience of the local food system by improving and expanding the strategic stock of food commodities, establishing and managing the strategic stock of agricultural inputs to ensure the continuity of local production in emergency situations, and developing central warning systems to monitor risks and improve response and decision-making mechanisms.