Eckart Woertz

Oil for Food: The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780199659487
• ISBN-10: 0199659486
• Artikelnr.: 36965070

Autorenporträt

Eckart Woertz is senior researcher at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB). Formerly he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, director of economic studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai, and worked for banks in Germany and the United Arab Emirates.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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 Future: Current GCC Agro-investments
* 8: Explaining the Implementation Gap: Money, Water, and Politics
* 9: Oil for Food Policies?
* References