for the individual countries or the region as a whole to be considered highly wheat secure it would need to demonstrate both high production as well as high economic capacities from the assessment it seems that no single country in the region has achieved this combination and as such the countries that exhibit either high production capacity to secure wheat locally or high economic capacity to import wheat are categorized as less secure while the remaining countries low production and economic capacities are considered to be insecure with the combined natural and economic resources available to the region it is believed that the region as a whole has the potential to become highly wheat secure provided that coordinated regional policies are adopted and translated into higher levels of cooperation between countries of the region