24 August، 2018
The food security is the prime measure of defining the government competence, as it is linked to its ability to provide the accepted limit of food to its citizens. Within this context, the discussion was made about the quick fixes that must be done to tackle the situations of the poor people, represented in supporting the ration card and improving it immediately, and to stop following the policies of the International Bank affecting the living aspect of the poor classes.

 

Some presented a picture about the corruption in the ration card, and the necessity to prevent it from touching the poor people’s food, and assign an impartial body, away from politics, to work neutrally and professionally to manage the ration card issue. Some interlocutors proposed a picture linked to the demonstrations happening in the Iraqi street in the present time with the living aspect of the poor people, as the corruption and the quota have led to a decline in the food security of that class.

 

Conclusions:

 

·         The scourge of corruption decimated the food of the poor citizens and threatened their food security, is the source of instability in the country on the social, security and economic levels.

 

·         One of the main reasons of the demonstration is the state’s weakness in designing programs that provide foods to the poorer class of the Iraqi people.

 

·         Governmental employment is not a solution, but rather a mean to calm down the audience, especially the youth segment, and if this solution remains temporarily, the young people will be frustrated again, and even more.

 

·         The problems suffered by Iraq in all levels, are accumulative problems, and they cannot be solved instantaneously.

 

·         The demands of the demonstrators are legal, and they are among the right of any human being, and they are not demands that exceed the abilities and potentials of the Iraqi government.

 

Recommendations:

 

·         The government, and the bodies participating in it, must have a frank practical position towards the corruption happening in all the State’s offices, especially regarding the issue of the food security of the citizens.

 

·         It is a fundamental duty of the government to provide the accepted limit of the food security according to the relevant international criterion.

 

·         The real solutions of the Iraqi situation problems start from providing high quality public services to the citizens, and raising the income rates through increasing the operational effectiveness of the private sector.

 

·         The adoption of “what comes first goes first” method is useless in solving the problems of the country, rather it is necessary to develop a plan fragment the outstanding issues, then the works are divided based on those issues to be solved.

 

Names of some participating members during the week's dialogue:

 

(1)   Dr. Rahim Al-Hasnawi

 

(2)   Dr. Basel Hussein

 

(3)   Mr. Mustafa Sadun

 

(4)   Dr. Hisham Al-Abadi

 

(5)   Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh

 

(6)   Mr. Amer Al-Musawi

 

(7)   Dr. Farhad Alaaldin

 

(8)   Mr. Hasan Al-Zubaidi

 

(9)   Mr. Saad Al-Ankoushi

 

(10)  Mr. Shwan Al-Dawoodi

 

(11)  Dr. Abbas Al-Aboudi

 

(12)  Mr. Husam Al-Ghazali

 

What is contained in this paper is a summary of the proposed opinions in the electronic groups of RCD.