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

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In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008 Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East in the spotlight of simultaneou...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woertz, Eckart
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Food security- Middle East.
Food supply- Middle East.
Petroleum industry and trade- Middle East.
Food security.
Food supply.
Petroleum industry and trade.
Online Access:http://www.amazon.com/Oil-Food-Global-Crisis-Middle/dp/0199659486
Table of Contents:
  • 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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