مجلة دراسات الإنسان و المجتمع

The study aimed to identify the food security situation of the cereal group in Libya during the period (1995-2014 AD), by knowing some economic developments related to production and consumption and the size of the food gap, based on the problem of securing food security for the state locally in light of several restrictions related to the availability of water and space The arable land and others, as well as the issue of food self-sufficiency by studying some economic indicators such as imports and prices of basic commodities. using the descriptive method. The study concluded several results, the most important of which are: that the food situation of the Libyan state is very dangerous, as the local production of grain reached about 25.75% of the market needs, and this means that there is a food gap for this group that reached about 74.25% during the study period (1995-2014). As for the quantity and value of imports and their prices for the group of grains, it was found that the quantity of imports ranged between a minimum of about 961 thousand tons and a higher of about 3431 thousand tons and an average of about 2175.4 thousand tons, a significant annual growth of about 4.2%, and the value of imports The grain group ranged between a minimum of about 107.2 million Libyan dinars and a maximum of about 826.7 million dinars, with a general average of about 461.7 million with a significant annual growth rate of about 10% during the study period (1995-2014), during the study period.