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Food Security in an Insecure Future

Authors : John R. Hillman, Elias Baydoun

Published in: Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Food security in the Middle East is directly affected by a challenging combination of ongoing destructive conflicts, a global economic downturn, widespread poverty, high population growth, corruption, intolerance, and the potentially damaging consequences of climate change. Many Arab countries demonstrate nearly all the features of those countries classified as poor, less developed, or failing to achieve the eight Millennium Goals. Even the economies of the richer oil-exporting countries in the Region have been seriously damaged by the downturn in oil and gas prices as new sources come on stream elsewhere and demand falls as a result of renewable sources of energy becoming available.

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Title: Food Security in an Insecure Future
Authors: John R. Hillman
Elias Baydoun
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Water, Energy & Food Sustainability in the Middle East
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-48919-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-48920-9

Copyright Year: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48920-9_12