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‘Food Insecurity and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa’ studies the political economy of agrarian transformation in the eponymous regions. Examining Egypt and Tunisia in detail as case studies, 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. Egypt and Tunisia are located in the context of the broader Middle East and broader processes of war, environmental transformation and economic reform.
The book contributes to uncovering the historical backdrop and contemporary pressures in the Middle East and North Africa for the uprisings of 2010 and 2011. It also explores the continued failure of post-uprising counter-revolutionary governments to directly address issues of rural development that put the position and role of small farmers centre stage.
"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.