Cooperation urged to secure Mideast food supplies

In a bid to boost food security, struggling countries in the Middle East should band together so as to ease the problem amid uncertainties, experts said.

Recently, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries' Fund for International Development announced it was providing Jordan with a $100 million loan for an Emergency Food Security Project, aimed at increasing the country's food security and mitigating the impact of rising commodity prices.

The expansion of 70 grain bunkers will increase Jordan's storage capacity of wheat and barley by a total of 700,000 metric tons, it said.