additionally political instability risk and corruption were also identified as challenges for some countries this is evident from the fact that a country such as singapore with limited agricultural production capacity is ranked at the top of the list at number while such countries as argentina and the russian federation with high agricultural production capacities are ranked much lower at numbers and respectively from table and on the basis of the overall structure of the index it can be concluded that arab countries with economic capacity to import food including those of the gcc subregion are expected to rank in positions comparable to that of kuwait the united arab emirates and saudi arabia arab ldcs on the other hand are expected to be ranked at the tail of the list comparable to that of yemen and sudan moreover while lebanon is expected to rank in a comparable position to those of tunisia and jordan other countries facing conflicts or unrest including iraq and libya are expected to score lower comparable to that of the syrian arab republic the rationale to limit the focus of food security on only these two elements stems from the convection of the instrumental role of agriculture to reduce poverty and malnutrition