Publications /
Paper in Academic Journals

Back
Read more
Food Trade Relations of The Middle East and North Africa with Tropical Countries : Opportunities and Risks of South-South Cooperation
Authors
Volume 7, Issue 6 , Introduction by
Jordi Bacaria
Karim El Aynaoui
Eckart Woertz
December 31, 2015
Related topics: 

We are very pleased to present this special section in Food Security. Its papers were first presented at the conference “Tropical Agriculture as ‘Last Frontier’? Food Import Needs of the Middle East and North Africa, Ecological Risks and New Dimensions of South-South Cooperation with Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia”. The conference was held in Barcelona on 29–30 January 2015 with our respective co-organizers, namely CIDOB, King’s College, London (KCL), the Getulyo Vargas Foundation in Sao Paolo and Wageningen University.

List of articles:

1. Introduction to the special section “Food Trade Relations of the Middle East and North Africa with Countries of the Tropics: Opportunities and Risks of South-South Cooperation” , by Jordi Bacaria, Karim El Aynaoui & Eckart Woertz

2. Food trade relations of the Middle East and North Africa with tropical countries, by Eckart Woertz & Martin Keulertz

3. Water resource decoupling in the MENA through food trade as a mechanism for circumventing national water scarcity, by Michael Gilmont

4. Tropical agriculturalisation: scenarios, their environmental impacts and the role of climate change in determining water-for-food, locally and along supply chains, by Mark Mulligan

5. Brazil’s South-South Cooperation in food security, by Gabriela Marcondes & Tom De Bruyn

6. Beyond the dualities: a nuanced understanding of Brazilian soybean producers, by Vanessa Empinotti

7. South-South cooperation: Brazilian soy diplomacy looking East?, by Jeroen Warner

8. The socio-cultural, institutional and gender aspects of the water transfer-agribusiness model for food and water security. Lessons learned from Peru, by Juana Vera Delgado

9. Reconciling food and water security objectives of MENA and sub-Saharan Africa: is there a role for large-scale agricultural investments?, by Timothy Olalekan Williams

10. Welfare impacts of smallholder farmers’ participation in maize and pigeonpea markets in Tanzania, by Frank E. Mmbando, Edilegnaw Z. Wale & Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

11. Subsidies promote use of drought tolerant maize varieties despite variable yield performance under smallholder environments in Malawi, by Stein T. Holden & Monica Fisher

12. Impact of agricultural technology adoption on asset ownership: the case of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria, by Bola Amoke Awotide, Arega D. Alene, Tahirou Abdoulaye & Victor M. Manyong

13. Horticultural practice and germplasm conservation: a case study in a rural population of the Patagonian steppe, by Cecilia Eyssartier, Ana H. Ladio & Mariana Lozada

14. Does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program improve child nutrition? , by Bethelhem Legesse Debela, Gerald Shively & Stein T. Holden

15. Sustainability spaces for complex agri-food systems, by Stephen Whitfield, Tim G. Benton, Martin Dallimer, Les G. Firbank, Guy M. Poppy, Susannah M. Sallu & Lindsay C. Stringer

16. Gendered food security in rural Malawi: why is women’s food security status lower? , by Menale Kassie, Jesper Stage, Hailemariam Teklewold & Olaf Erenstein

17. Household wealth and adoption of improved maize varieties in Nepal: a double-hurdle approach, by Raju Ghimire & Wen-Chi Huang

18. Technical convening on smallholder agricultural transformation, Arlington, VA, USA, May 7–8, 2015, by Anwar Naseem, Carl E. Pray & James F. Oehmke

19. F. Bailey Norwood, Pascal A. Oltenacu, Michelle S. Calvo-Lorenzo and Sarah Lancaster: Agricultural & food controversies: what everyone needs to know, by Jonathan Ingram

20. Rosamond L. Naylor (Editor): The evolving sphere of food security, by Prabhu L. Pingali 

RELATED CONTENT

  • Download PDF
    The United States' economic strategy and presence in the Maghreb
    Authors
    Kassim Bouhou
    September 17, 2010
    Before the 9/11 events, US-Maghreb relations were growing stronger, especially after the United States had long left the floor to the Maghreb’s “natural” European partner. Therefore the American action in this region was in line with a mechanism previously set off by Clinton Administration member, Stuart Eizenstat, which aimed at reducing intra regional obstacles and stimulating American investments towards an area where Americans were little-represented. Hence Washington seemed mor ...
  • Download PDF
    Migrations, remittances and development - Comparing experiences from Mexico and Maghreb
    Authors
    Flore Gubert
    September 1, 2010
    The potential synergy between development and migration has become a key feature of most international migration politics. However, this relationship is far from evident. Flore Gubert helps better understand the complexity of this relationship through the comparison of two regional contexts (Mexico and North Africa), and shows how the political and economic context prevailing in the countries of origin modifies the link between migration and development. This Note de l'Ifri is the ...
  • Download PDF
    Trafficking in the Sahel-Saharan zone: features and stakes
    Authors
    Jean-Luc Peduzzi
    February 20, 2010
    On November 5th 2009, a cocaine-loaded Boeing 727 aircraft arriving from Venezuela was discovered torched and emptied on a makeshift airstrip in the Malian desert (Gao region). The sahel-saharan area is clearly a contact zone between very distant worlds. ...
  • Download PDF
    Tuaregs' relations to States: the case of Algeria and Libya
    Authors
    Dida Badi
    February 20, 2010
    The industrial revolution underwent by Europe in the 18th century has triggered the need for the major colonial powers to find new markets for their manufactured products. It is in this colonial competitive framework that European explorers delivered information about the different access roads, as well as the Tuareg tribes, notably the Kel Ajjer and the Kel Ahaggar. ...
  • Les Mardis du PCNS 22/09/2020 : أي نموذج للحياة العامة بعد جائحة كورونا؟
    September 22, 0202
    بعد تفشي فيروس كورونا المستجد في جل مناطق العالم، اختلفت طرق التصدي له من دولة إلى أخرى. حيث اعتمدت الدول قرارات متفاوتة من حيث الصرامة في ظل الحد من تفشي هذا الوباء. وفي نفس الصدد، اتُخذت عدة قرارات لدعم المواطنين لكي يتاح لهم المرور من هذه الأزمة بأقل الأضرار الممكنة في مختلف القطاعات...
  • Les Mardis du PCNS 15/09/2020 : تحديات الوسط القروي في ظل أزمة كورونا
    September 15, 0202
    بفعل التأثير المزدوج للجفاف والقيود المفروضة للحد من انتشار وباء كوفيد-19، يتوقع بنك المغرب (المصرف المركزي) أن يسجل الاقتصاد سنة 2020 أقوى تراجع له منذ 1996، وذلك بنسبة 5,2 بالمئة كما تسببت القيود المفروضة على التنقل في إطار حالة الطوارئ بشلل العديد من القطاعات الاقتصادية بالمغرب. بينم...
  • African Futures Fund by Jessica Berlin, Germany (ADEL 2017)
    June 25, 0021
    African Futures evolved from a conference to a digital platform and fund that helped impact-driven entrepreneurs and secure the funding and partnerships they need to scale their businesses across the continent. African Futures goal is to help turn national level sustainable business suc...

  • From

    14
    2:00 pm July 2025

    To

    15
    5:00 pm July 2025

    Africa Economic Symposium (AES) – 3rd Edition: Bold Moves amid Global Shifts

      The Policy Center for the New South will organize the 3rd edition of the Africa Economic Symposium (AES2025) on July 14th-15th, 2025, under the theme “Bold Moves amid Global Shifts”. The Symposium aspires to be a continent-wide annual gathering of prominent economists, policymakers, and academics to bring together global and continental perspectives on macroeconomic management challenges and structural issues that shape the future of Africa's economic development. Building on the success of previous editions (AES2023 and AES2024), which gathered around 200 participants from 40 nationalities, this year’s conference continues to strengthen its position as a key forum for economic dialogue in Africa. Central to this Symposium is the Annual Economic Report on Africa, the PCNS ...

  • From

    15
    10:30 am May 2025

    Parlons Développement - 20e édition - Marché de l'emploi au Maroc : Comment aligner aspirations des jeunes et exigences du marché ?

      Lieu : École Supérieure de Technologie (EST), Fquih Ben Salah Depuis 2021, le Policy Center for the New South, le Programme des Nations unies pour le développement (PNUD) et la Banque mondiale ont lancé l’initiative « Parlons développement ». Cette initiative consiste en une série de réflexions collectives sur les grands enjeux du développement durable, visant à examiner les transformations durables, qu’elles soient positives ou négatives, ainsi que leurs impacts sur l’agenda des objectifs de développement durable (ODD). La plateforme de débat « Parlons développement » est destinée aux jeunes et est organisée en collaboration avec différents partenaires pour être au plus près des préoccupations des jeunes et du grand public. Elle vise à stimuler un débat riche sur les leç ...

  • From

    08
    10:30 am April 2025

    Parlons Développement - 19ème Edition : L’innovation au service du développement économique et social d’Al Hoceima

    Lieu : Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Al Hoceima Depuis 2021, le Policy Center for the New South, le Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) et la Banque mondiale portent ensemble l’initiative « Parlons développement » : une série de réflexions collectives autour des enjeux du développement durable au Maroc. Cette initiative vise à interroger les grandes mutations en cours et leur impact sur l’agenda des Objectifs de Développement Durable (ODD), en rapprochant les débats stratégiques des réalités vécues sur le terrain. Organisée en partenariat avec la Faculté des Sciences et Techniques d’Al Hoceima, la 19ème édition de « Parlons Développement » portera sur un levier central du développement territorial : l’innovation au service du développement économiq ...