Food and Water Security in UAE

Food and Water Security in UAE

Contents

Introduction        2

Research Problem        2

Research Theses        2

Research objectives        2

Research Questions        3

Significance of the research        3

Literature review        3

Theoretical framework        4

A methodological approach        4

Result        5

Solution        5

Recommendation        6

Conclusion        6

Assessment of Student Learning        6

Bibliography        7

Introduction

In this research proposal, the issue of food and water security in the United Arab Emirates will be addressed and analyzed. This subject was chosen specifically due to the challenges that the UAE is facing in the issue of food and water security. After the UAE was one of the leading countries in its interests and plans to maintain food and water security, it is currently facing some of the challenges that The UAE is known as a country that is fully dependent on imports of food products and commodities from outside its borders due to its poor desert climate, as well as its possessed of arid lands that are not suitable for agriculture. From here, the discussion will be in detail the current status of the UAE in food and water security, as well as this security situation in the Gulf countries, in addition to identifying the strategies that it implements with GCC countries and any other countries of the world from outside the Gulf region, Which will be focusing on both Japan and Singapore in this case.

Research Problem

The Food and water security in the UAE at recent days, beside the strategic policies that the State is planning to maintain food and water security in alliance with the GCC countries as well as countries from outside the Gulf region.

Research objectives

The research proposal aims at three main objectives:

• Identify the current situation of the UAE in the issue of food and water security.
• Identify the most important challenges facing the UAE in this case as well as identify its main causes.
• Identify the most important strategies implemented by the United Arab Emirates with the GCC countries, as well as the selected countries of Japan and Singapore.

Research Questions

• What is the food and water security situation in the UAE at the present?
• What are the most important challenges facing the UAE regarding food and water security?
• What are the most important strategies pursued by the UAE State in cooperation with the GCC countries and the countries from outside the Gulf region?

Significance of the research

The importance of research here is that these challenges to food and water security are one of the main challenges that are facing the UAE in specific and the world in general. However, after it has become a financial burden on the UAE, it has become important to research the current situation of our food and water security, in order to identify the most important reasons for the formation of these obstacles, as well as to identify the most important solutions and strategies that may work to alleviate the problem and find suitable and serious solutions. This research is of high importance because it deals with the essence of the issue in order to extract results that may improve the state of food and water security in modern and scientific ways.

This research proposal, which is followed by a long research, will bring the student to an advanced stage of scientific research, through which many information will be acquired, information is closely related to the strategies of countries, trade, and economic relations that would be of benefit to the student and for the whole issue. The most important thing a student can learn from this study is to recognize the importance of trade, economic and political relations in the connection of food and water security in the country, in addition to identifying the most important factors affecting the security situation. Strategies and policies that are followed to eliminate the problem or the whole issue. These are the most important things that the researcher can learn through this study, in addition to benefiting from the detailed research methods that would be applied in long research projects such as quantitative and qualitative research methods that enhance the student's ability to analyze, understand and compresence the causes and facts, solutions and recommendations and everything that can be researched.

Literature review

In this section of the research proposal, some of the topics that have been written in previous reports and articles will be addressed in order to explore several topics that will play a key role in my research project.

(Suzan Shahin,Mohammed A. Salem, 2014)(Fischbach, 2018) These two sources will discusse the current state of the UAE in food and water security, as well as identifying  the most important challenges facing the UAE and identify the strategies that will be implemented in future UAE plans in order to find solutions to that problem, it is quite important to know all the challenges that are associated with the current problem to find the needed solutions for such a critical problem that threatens the security of the count.

(Rob Bailey,Robin Willoughby , 2013). (Markaz al-Imārāt, lil-Dirāsāt wa-al-Buḥūth al-Istirātījīyah, 2013). (Lawati, 2017) in these two sources, it will be discussed the situation of the UAE and the GCC countries from the perspective of food and water security, and what are the most important aspects that GCC countries are taking with the UAE to enhance this security, in addition to the challenges faced by the Gulf countries as a whole, and what are the factors that are increasing those challenges.

(Rosero, 2013). (agrifood,nd, 2019) Through These two sources I will discuss the state of food and water security in the Singapore, as well as to identify whether it is facing challenges in this regard and identify the country's most important strategies for maintaining food and water security. In the long term, in order to acquire some of the policies and strategies that will work on my inspiration in some of the solutions and recommendations that I will provide at the end of this research.

(mofa,nd, 2019) Finally, the strategic relations and alliances between the UAE and Japan will be discussed in theses to sources, with the aim of improving and enhancing the food and water security of the two countries, as well as identifying the most important agreements concluded between the two countries in this regard.to realize the future of food and water security in the UAE is short and long term.

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