libya

libya is 98% desert
only 1.7% of the area is for growing agriculture [SOURCE APPEARS BELOW] which is far from the needs for feeding the samll population of around ten million.
they should invest much more in feeding the nation independently.
algeria had around 3.1% agriculture land in year 1997 and it grew a bit to 3.4 percent in 2016 however all other land which grows plants is for grazing- and this is likely to expand the sahara desert- somebody should tell those muslim governments to grow food for themeselves instead of repy on import grain. on the other hand if there would be  awar thecountries could say stop fighting or no food? the western countries would GIVE FOOD and never say that... so no advantage of this weakness. soebody should tell algeria and libya to increase the food growth from 2% and 4% to much more wheat feilds to feed the citizens and even export after all that region was once a source of food for rome! in the roman era. they should invest in that considering they do not have enough for their own citizens grown locally.
one website claimed "production of cereals in 1998 (207,000 metric tons) met only 15 percent of the country's needs. Therefore, Libya has remained dependent on large agricultural imports, estimated at about 75 percent of its annual needs. SOURCE --Read more: https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Africa/Libya-AGRICULTURE.html
SIMILAR to the "75% NEED"=IMPORT same as  Algeria
"The production of cereals as well as orchard and industrial crops has significantly dropped. As a result, Algeria today has become dependent on food imports, accounting for close to 75 percent of food needs.SOURCE--Read more: https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Africa/Algeria-AGRICULTURE.html
HOW MUCH AREA? the data at this website is corroborated by another site and similar to an old book from year 2000 hence plausible that "arable land of about 8.2 million hectares accounts for only 3.4 percent of the total land area."SOURCE--Read more: https://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/economies/Africa/Algeria-AGRICULTURE.html
sad that they do not try to grow food for their citizens. i year 2000 very few universities and even less for technology. that is not URGENT but growing food is urgent and the countries should provide for the citizens instead of importing relying on others.