Background: With a booming population, urbanization growth and climate change food production, supply and security are the most critical challenges for countries. However, ensuring food production, supply, security and coping ability of consumers need higher attention from the perspective of the lessons learned from the International Food Network Trade (IFNT) in the drylands.

Objectives: This scoping review aimed to synthesize the roles of the International Food Network Trade (IFNT) to ensure food uniform production, supply and security in the lowlands and dry lands across the world.

Methods: This scoping review was made through deep and thorough questing for the relevant article on the topic from the essential databases. The relevant articles were searched from four databases: Cochrane Library, MEDLINE (EBSCOhost), MEDLINE/PubMed and SCOPUS. Quality assessment for the selection of articles that meet the inclusion criteria was carried out. The main themes of food security and resilience were categorized. Based on these themes descriptive and qualitative synthesis was done.

Results: A total of 732 studies were identified from databases. Among these twelve articles studies met the inclusion criteria. These studies were conducted in lower middle-income countries (LMICs), and Middle Eastern and Northern African (MENA) regions. The main themes were created. These were food production, food supply and food security versus the resilient capacity of consumers living in low and dryland and the role of IFNT. Under the food production, resilient and IFNT, countries located in the lowland dryland weather conditions produce medium-scale agricultural products but more other industrial outputs. In turn, they import and purchase adequate food and consumables for the consumers. This viciously ensures both food supply and security. Through an intact and sustainable chain, they enable the resilience or coping capacity of the utilizers in those geographic areas. Moreover, the role of IFTN has extraordinary contributions to ensuring food production, supply, security and sustainable coping capacity.

Conclusion: Although FTN has remarkable importance in ensuring food production, supply, security, and resilience of consumers, there is a dearth of studies in underdeveloped countries which are located in the sub-Sahara region. Therefore, further actions and studies are needed to ensure validation in these contexts, particularly the lowland and drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Keywords: IFNT, food production, food security, food supply, resilience, lowlands, scoping review