[caption id="attachment_55250597" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Syrian refugee takes Syrian currency from the customers at his shop at the Za’atari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq,…

[caption id="attachment_55250552" align="alignnone" width="620"] Iraqis harvest potatoes in a field on June 24, 2014.(KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] Food security has become a hot topic in…

[caption id="attachment_55250534" align="alignnone" width="620"] Turkey's Central Bank Governor Erdem Başcı speaks during a press conference in Ankara on January 28, 2014. (Photo credit should read…

[caption id="attachment_55250422" align="alignnone" width="620"] A picture taken on February 3, 2014, shows low-income Iranians lining up to receive food supplies in southern Tehran. The Iranian…

[caption id="attachment_55250405" align="alignnone" width="620"] A Syrian Kurdish policeman patrols the border between Syria and Iraq in the oil-rich region of Hassakeh, on October 14, 2013. (FABIO…

[caption id="attachment_55250121" align="alignnone" width="620"] A view of construction on the pipeline between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey, taken in Dohuk on December 10, 2013.(Emrah Yorulmaz/Anadolu…

[caption id="attachment_55249813" align="alignnone" width="620"] A seismic vessel is pictured off the coast of Lebanon on September 24, 2012. Seismic surveys of Mediterranean waters off Lebanon's…

[caption id="attachment_55249585" align="alignnone" width="620"] Yemeni farmers sit near a patch of dry farmland in Sana'a, Yemen, on January 25, 2010. (Ed Ou/Getty Images)[/caption] Located in the…

[caption id="attachment_55249207" align="alignnone" width="620"] Syrians ride their bicycles past the Umayyad mosque in Damascus on January 17, 2014. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)[/caption] For the past…

[caption id="attachment_55248864" align="alignnone" width="620"] Ali Griri in his office in Kasserine. (Eileen Byrne)[/caption] From his comfortable new office, with its black leather upholstered…