Food security in the Middle East
Babar, ZahraAuthor
Mirgani, SuziContributor
Mirgani, SuziEditor
Babar, ZahraContributor
Babar, ZahraEditor
Georgetown University.Center for International and Regional Studies,associated with work.
This study analyses both the historic trajectories of agricultural development in the Middle East, and how the globalisation of food production has impacted domestic food security and food sovereignty. The volume draws on original research conducted on the causes and consequences of food security in the Middle East at national and regional levels as well as household and individual levels.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This study analyses both the historic trajectories of agricultural development in the Middle East, and how the globalisation of food production has impacted domestic food security and food sovereignty. The volume draws on original research conducted on the causes and consequences of food security in the Middle East at national and regional levels as well as household and individual levels.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 18, 2014).
Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Food Security and Food Sovereignty in the Middle East -- Mehran Kamrava and Zahra Babar -- 2. Historic Food Regimes and the Middle East -- Eckart Woertz -- 3. An Economic Analysis of National Food Sovereignty Policies in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon and Jordan -- Jane Harrigan -- 4. Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Egypt -- Raymond Bush -- 5. Prospects for Food Self-Sufficiency in Iran in 2025 -- Habibollah Salami, Toktam Mohtashami and Mohamad Saeid Noori Naeini -- 6. Neither Security nor Sovereignty: Agriculture and Food Production in Yemen -- Martha Mundy, Amin al-Hakimi and Frédéric Pelat -- 7. Urban Agriculture and Food Security in the Middle Eastern Context: A Case Study from Lebanon and Jordan -- Shadi Hamadeh, Salwa Tohmé Tawk and Mounir Abi Said -- 8. Food Security and the Supermarket Transition in the Middle East-Two Case Studies -- Karin Seyfert, Jad Chabaan and Hala Ghattas -- 9. Win-Win versus Lose-Lose: Investments in Foreign Agriculture as a Food Security Strategy of the Arab States of the Persian Gulf -- Mary Ann Tétreault, Deborah L Wheeler and Benjamin Shepherd -- 10. Food Insecurity in the West Bank -- Elisa Cavatorta and Sam Waples -- 11. The Nutrition Transition and Obesity in Qatar -- Tahra Elobeid and Abdelmoniem Hassan.
Food security
Food supply
Agriculture and state
Nutricion policy
Business & Economics
Agricultural Economics