The frontiers of corporate food in Egypt /
"Corporations have had a growing role in agriculture and food around the world. The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt details the development and growth of a corporate agri-food system in Egypt. This system includes food processing and an animal protein complex largely for corporate consumer...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Series: | Middle East political economy series
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Corporations have had a growing role in agriculture and food around the world. The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt details the development and growth of a corporate agri-food system in Egypt. This system includes food processing and an animal protein complex largely for corporate consumer markets in the country--from street kiosks to fast food outlets to hypermarkets--and fresh fruits and vegetables largely for export. The book demonstrates the importance of reclaimed lands, or frontiers, for the development and growth of the corporate agri-food system from the 1980s through the 2011 popular uprising. Various forces, including multiple threats from plant and animal diseases (the Avian flu, especially) have pushed and pulled agribusiness to new lands. This system's growth has also rested on imports and contract farming. As a result, dependence on food imports has grown. What agriculturalists grow has changed toward processing vegetables and animal protein, and what Egyptians eat has changed toward foods/drinks high in unhealthy fats, sugars, and sodium. Through mixed-methods research in Egypt between 2008 and 2012, this book shows how the growth of corporate food has contributed to growing food insecurity and to multiplying threats to public health from chronic and infectious diseases"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0192654683 0191925608 9780191925603 9780192654670 0192654675 9780192654687 |