Food insecurity and political instability during the Arab Spring

G Soffiantini - Global Food Security, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the causal relationship between food insecurity generated by extreme
weather events and political instability. This causal relationship is illustrated through a …

Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and food consumption: Preliminary insights from the gulf cooperation council region

T Ben Hassen, H El Bilali - Cogent Social Sciences, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, measures to contain it—such as home confinement,
social isolation, closure of businesses and educational institutions, and remote work—have …

Teleconnected food supply shocks

CB d'Amour, L Wenz, M Kalkuhl… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The 2008–2010 food crisis might have been a harbinger of fundamental climate-induced
food crises with geopolitical implications. Heat-wave-induced yield losses in Russia and …

Chinese drought, bread and the Arab Spring

T Sternberg - Applied Geography, 2012 - Elsevier
In 2011 winter drought in eastern China's wheat-growing region had significant implications
beyond the country's borders. Potential crop failure due to drought led China to buy wheat …

Meninjau pengembangan food estate sebagai strategi ketahanan nasional pada era pandemi Covid-19

AF Basundoro, FH Sulaeman - Jurnal Lemhannas RI, 2020 - jurnal.lemhannas.go.id
Abstract Pada tanggal 9 Juli 2020, Presiden Joko Widodo memberikan mandat kepada
Menteri Pertahanan, Prabowo Subianto, untuk memimpin pelaksanaan proyek food estate …

Impacts of laser land leveling in rice–wheat systems of the north–western indo-gangetic plains of India

JP Aryal, MB Mehrotra, ML Jat, HS Sidhu - Food Security, 2015 - Springer
We assessed the impact of laser land leveling technology in rice-wheat (RW) systems of
north-west India using data collected from household surveys in 2011. We compared crop …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and addressing waste of food in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

MB Baig, I Gorski, RA Neff - Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
Introduction Multiple estimates suggest the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) may have one of
the highest rates of wasted food globally. The KSA has limited arable lands and scarce …

Food security and storage in the Middle East and North Africa

DF Larson, J Lampietti, C Gouel… - The World Bank …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
In times of highly volatile commodity markets, governments often try to protect their
populations from rapidly rising food prices, which can be particularly harmful for the poor. A …

Financial dynamics of the environment: Risks, impacts, and barriers to resilience

B Caldecott, J McDaniels - Stranded Assets Programme, 2014 - ora.ox.ac.uk
This Working Paper does three things: first, summarises the underlying logic for why the
financial sector should care about the environment and environment-related risks; second …

The dairy chains in North Africa (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia): from self sufficiency options to food dependency?

MT Sraïri, MT Benyoucef, K Kraiem - SpringerPlus, 2013 - Springer
Abstract The Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) have experienced since the
early 1950s a rapid demographic growth coupled to a significant rhythm of urbanization …