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cord-324385-v8onclcc	Woertz, Eckart	Wither the self-sufficiency illusion? Food security in Arab Gulf States and the impact of COVID-19	2020-07-08		.txt	text/plain	2824	139	51	Food accessibility for vulnerable population segments such as migrant labour is another issue that requires yet further policy measures, such as safety nets – whose expansion would be politically controversial if not impossible, however. Neither domestic self-sufficiency nor self-sufficiency by proxy (i.e. farmland abroad) are the main challenges, rather the management of value chains, food diplomacy to ensure the functionality of multilateral frameworks, tackling malnutrition and its consequences (e.g. obesity) and ensuring food accessibility for vulnerable segments of the populationsuch as migrant labour and people with insecure residency statuses. This all means that the Gulf countries find themselves in a relatively privileged position: their global supplies of agricultural products are unlikely to dry up in the foreseeable future, while their modern food value chains that are dominated by supermarkets and capital-intensive processing plants are less vulnerable to COVID-19-related disruptions.	./cache/cord-324385-v8onclcc.txt	./txt/cord-324385-v8onclcc.txt