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Author Woertz, Eckart, author.

Title Oil for food : the global food crisis and the Middle East / Eckart Woertz.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
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Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary '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 analyses the geopolitical implications behind the investment drive of Arab Gulf countries in food insecure countries like Sudan or Pakistan.
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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Subject Food supply -- Middle East.
Food supply.
Middle East.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Sustainable Agriculture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Woertz, Eckart. Oil for food 9780199659487 (OCoLC)824180071
ISBN 9780191634338 (electronic book)
0191634336 (electronic book)
019174915X (electronic book)
9780191749155 (electronic book)
9780199659487
0199659486
9780198729396 (paperback)
0198729391 (paperback)