Coming in the wake of intense political and academic debate on the nature and
development of the Arab Uprisings, Gramsci on Tahrir zeroes in on the complex dynamic of …

This book examines the ways in which poverty in the Global South is created and
reproduced. More than a billion people, one in five, live on less than US $1 a day. Poverty is …

Discussion on food sovereignty and agro-ecology, and Anglophone rural sociology have
blind spots when it comes to the Middle East/North African (Arab) region. This article …

Agricultural cooperatives have seen a comeback in sub‐Saharan Africa. After the collapse of
many weakly performing monopolist organizations during the 1980s and 1990s …

This book documents the dimensions to agricultural modernization in Egypt. It particularly
assesses the impact of changes in land tenure arrangements for tenants resulting from law …

The agricultural development on newly reclaimed lands has led to many national debates
about food security and budget deficits, and the living conditions of the new settlers at the …

Globalisation—understood as external and internal market liberalisation—generates
conditions in poor countries that are conducive to the emergence of extremist movements …

The article examines the weakness of discourses around food sovereignty in Southwest
Asia and North Africa, and examines some older currents resembling the food sovereignty …

The Egyptian Revolution 2011 has its roots in neoliberal policies, the premises of which are
not shared by a large part of the Egyptian population. Starting from the call for “bread …

Schon bei flüchtiger Wahrnehmung halten sich bei allem raschen Wechsel der Themen und
Länder einige Konstanten: Afrika und die arabisch-islamische Welt bieten offensichtlich …