Oil for food : the global food crisis and the Middle East /

'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 analyses the geopolitical implications behind the investment drive of Arab Gulf c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Woertz, Eckart (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Food supply > Middle East.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Food supply
Middle East
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The Gulf food security predicament
  • pt. I. Gulf food security : history, political economy, and geopolitics. Ethiopian wheat and American tires : Gulf food security and World War II
  • Rise and fall of the blooming desert : the self-sufficiency illusion
  • The food weapon : geopolitics in the Middle East
  • pt. II. Gulf food security and international agro-investments. The global land grab phenomenon
  • The Sudan bread-basket dream
  • Return to the future : current Gulf agro-investments
  • Explaining the implementation gap : money, water, and politics
  • Oil-for-food policies?

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