Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

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.

"Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a timely and powerful contribution that helps us understand the socio-ecological fragility of the region. It locates current and speculative food crisis within debates of agrarian transformations and food systems. It fills a gap in critical agrarian studies given that discussions on the relation between the political economy of agriculture, farming and food security in the MENA region have been nearly absent from critical agrarian debates in leading peasant studies journals". — Yasmine Moataz Ahmed (2020): Food insecurity and revolution in the Middle East and North Africa: agrarian questions in Egypt and Tunisia, The Journal of Peasant Studies, DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2020.1846673

• 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.