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Jane Harrigan
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Jane Harrigan: University of London

Chapter 1 in The Political Economy of Arab Food Sovereignty, 2014, pp 1-18 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Three recent phenomena serve as the background to this book: the global food price crises of 2007–08 and 2010–11, the Arab Spring, and the growing practice of foreign land acquisition, sometimes referred to as ‘land grab’,1 whereby richer food-scarce countries acquire land in poorer, land-abundant countries to directly source their food needs. This book argues that these three phenomena are intimately linked and are part of the new political economy of food in the Arab region, one whereby Arab states are developing a new approach to food security which we have called macro food sovereignty. As pointed out by Zurayk (2012, p. 19), food politics and its relationship to power is of crucial importance to the Arab region yet remains under-studied. This book hopes to help fill that gap by providing a political economy analysis of food security and food sovereignty in the Arab world.

Keywords: Food Security; Food Price; Arab World; Food Sovereignty; Arab Region (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137339386_1

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