Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa - Agrarian Questions in Egypt and Tunisia

'Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa' examines the political economy of agrarian transformation with case studies of Egypt and Tunisia. It critiques the dominant tropes of food security offered by the international financial institutions and promotes the importance of small-scale family farming in developing sustainable food sovereignty.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Agrarian Transformations and Modernisations; 2. War, Economic Reform and Environmental Crisis; 3. The Agrarian Origins of Regime Change; 4. Food Security in Egypt and Tunisia; 5. Farmers and Farming: Tunisia; 6. Farmers and Farming: Egypt; 7. Food Sovereignty; References; Index.

About the author

Habib Ayeb is a social geographer, researcher and professor at the University of Paris 8 in Saint Denis, France, since 1992.

Ray Bush is professor of African studies and development politics at the University of Leeds, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Habib Ayeb, Habib Bush Ayeb, Ray Bush
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781785270871
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-087-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Anthem Frontiers of Global Pol; Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education