Marion W Dixon

The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt

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Produktbeschreibung

This book details the development and growth of a corporate agri-food system in Egypt. Marion W. Dixon draws on mixed-methods research in Egypt between 2008 and 2012 to show how the growth of corporate food has contributed to growing food insecurity and to multiplying threats to public health from chronic and infectious diseases.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780192842985
• ISBN-10: 0192842986
• Artikelnr.: 68041393

Autorenporträt

Marion W. Dixon is Associate Professor of Sociology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh. She holds a PhD in development sociology from Cornell University, and has been researching agriculture and food systems, including in Egypt, for the past fifteen years.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: Frontier Making and the Ecology of Commercial
Agriculture in Egypt
* 2: Food Crises and Revolt
* 3: The Dual Character of the Corporate Agri-food System
* 4: Land Reclamation in the Longue Durée
* 5: The Frontier and Export Plantation Economy of the Long 19th
Century
* 6: Post-Colonial Frontier Making? State Land Reclamation and the
Desert Frontier
* 7: Ghosts of Finance Pasts: The Return of Finance and Family Business
Groups
* 8: Biosecurity and the Ending of Frontiers?
* 9: Conclusion: Frontiers and Corporate Food
* Epilogue