Agricultural and Rural Policies and Their Role in Achieving Food Security in Algeria 1974-2016

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to evaluate Algeria’s agriculture reforms, in order to evaluate the Algerian experience by trying to predict through a systematic study of the evolution of successive agricultural policies to achieve agricultural growth and food security, focusing on the historical context and rural policy dimensions. Algeria has created agricultural development through adopting a number of policies that began with the self-management system in 1963. It follows the central planning system, characterized by an agricultural revolution; a series of reforms began in 1990 reflecting the new direction of the Algerian state in building an economic system based on the rules of a market economy. To the Agricultural and Rural Renewal Policy and the five-year program (2010-2014), all these agricultural and rural policies since 1962 have always favored the growth of agricultural production, in order to maintain a dynamic of agricultural growth and to provide the basis for a continuous development of food security.