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Book presentation "Oil for Food. The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East"
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2014-06-10 17:30:00
2014-06-10 19:30:00
Book presentation "Oil for Food. The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East"
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Location
Policy Center
Policy Center
Africa/Casablanca
public
by Eckart Woertz
17:30 - 19:30, OCP Policy Center, Rabat, Morocco
In the wake of the global food crisis of 2008 Middle Eastern oil producers announced multi-billion investments to secure food supplies from abroad. Often called land grabs, such investments are at the heart of the global food security challenge and put the Middle East in the spotlight of simultaneous global crises in the fields of food, finance, and energy.
Speakers
Eckart Woertz
Director, GIGA Institute of Middle East Studies
Eckart Woertz is senior research fellow at CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs and scientific advisor to the Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. Formerly he was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, director of economic studies at the Gulf Research Center in Dubai and worked for banks in Germany and the United Arab Emirates. He teaches at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI) and was KSP visiting professor at the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at SciencesPo.
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