Oil for Food : The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East
ISBN: 9780199659487 | 0199659486
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/10/2013
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Oil for Food draws on extensive sources and interviews to tell the story of how Arab Gulf countries reacted to the 2008 global food crisis. It argues against the hype created around so called land grabs and analyzes the geopolitical implications behind the investment drive of Arab Gulf countries in food insecure countries like Sudan or Pakistan.
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008 Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs,... MORE
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008 Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs,... MORE
Preface
Introduction
1. The Gulf Food Security Predicament
Part I: Gulf Food Security: History, Political Economy, and Geopolitics
2. Ethiopian Wheat and American Tires: Gulf Food Security and World War II
3. Rise and Fall of the Blooming Desert: The Self-Sufficiency Illusion
4. The Food Weapon: Geopolitics in the Middle East
Part II: Gulf Food Security and International Agro-investments
5. The Global Land Grab Phenomenon
6. The Sudan Bread-Basket Dream
7. Return to the Futu... MORE
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