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6. Policy Recommendations
6.1. Overview
OIC member states differ substantially in their level of food system maturity, but all members
can develop enhanced roadmaps to establishing food system stability. While several roadmaps
have been discussed thus far, a more concrete, OIC-wide action plan is recommended for robust
food security—one that puts the onus of action onto individual governments supported by an
OIC-wide infrastructure.
Despite numerous initiatives to enhance trade between OIC countries, the intra-OIC trade for
food products has been somewhat limited and has resulted in a $67 billion trade deficit in food
across the OIC, where only $34 billion has been exported between OIC Member countries .579
Any policy recommendationsmade to enhance the strength of food systems across the OIC , and
in particular among themost vulnerable countries, would rest on reducing barriers to trade, and
would push for a more integrated project development across the OIC.
As various recommendations are discussed, it is important to refer back to the segmentation of
OIC member countries that was introduced earlier in this report, as recommendationswill not
always apply across the entire OIC.
Figure 37: Segmenting the OIC Member Countries by Level of Food System Stability
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579 ITC Trademap.
580 See Chapter 4 for discussion on themethodology used for the segmentation.