Small farmers and the revolution in Egypt: the forgotten actors

Nour, Saker El

doi:10.1080/17550912.2015.1016764

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“…The corporate system in which the Gulf is invested may also be weakened by intensified contestation from the social movements that resurfaced in the region's politics since 2011. Demands for food sovereignty were at the centre of revolts that took place in states such as Tunisia and Egypt, and the regional corporate food system continues to embody a deep inequality and underdevelopment that remains unresolved (Nour 2015).…”

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The rise of Arab Gulf agro-capital: continuity and change in the corporate food regime

Henderson

2021

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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The role of non-Northern capitals within the corporate food system is a matter of increasing debate within food regime literature. This article intervenes on this discussion by proposing that the Arab Gulf states are a new capital within the corporate food system. It argues that the emphasis on the role of the state, which has drawn definitions of mercantilism, has led to the exceptional and reifying treatment of this entrant. As a result, this analytical focus has obfuscated the manner that new capitals such as the Gulf states have acted as a force of continuity, as well as change.

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The rise of Arab Gulf agro-capital: continuity and change in the corporate food regime

Henderson

2021

The Journal of Peasant Studies

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“…It may come as no surprise, then, that small farmers played a prominent role in the 2011 revolution in Egypt (El Nour 2015).…”

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2021

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The book proposes a profound rethink of the complex relationship between Europe—defined here as the European Union and its members—and the states of the Mediterranean Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Europe’s ‘southern neighbours’. These relations are examined through a borderlands prism that conceives of this interaction as one between an empire of sorts that seeks to export its order beyond the border, and the empire’s southern borderlands. Focusing on trade relations on the one hand, and the cooperation on migration, borders, and security on the other, the book revisits the historical origins and modalities of Europe’s selective rule transfer to MENA states, the interests underwriting these policies, and the complex dynamics marking the interaction between the two sides over a twenty-year period (1995–2015). It shows that within a system of structurally asymmetric economic relations from which Europe and MENA elites benefit the most, single MENA governments have been co-opted into the management of border and migration control where they act as Europe’s gatekeepers. Combined with specific policy choices of MENA governments, Europe’s selective expansion of its rules, practices, and disaggregated borders have contributed to rising socio-economic inequalities and the strengthening of authoritarian rule in the ‘southern neighbourhood’, with Europe tacitly tolerating serious violations of the rights of refugees and migrants at its fringes. Challenging the self-proclaimed benevolent nature of European policies and the notion of ‘Fortress Europe’ alike, the findings of this study contribute to broader debates on power, dependence, and interdependence in the discipline of international relations.

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“…Notes 1. By reframing land grabs in this manner this article contributes to a body of work on Gulf agriculture and agrarian change within the Arab region (Ajl, 2020;Ayeb and Bush, 2019;Dixon, 2014;Harrigan, 2014;Henderson, 2019;Hanieh, 2013Hanieh, , 2018Pirani and Arafat, 2016;Spiess 2012;Woertz, 2013aWoertz, , 2013bZurayk et al, 2011) It also contributes to work on land grabs and commodity frontiers in the Nile Basin (Deputy, 2011;Dixon, 2015;Nour, 2015Nour, , 2020Mitchell, 2002;Sims, 2018).…”

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Land grabs reexamined: Gulf Arab agro-commodity chains and spaces of extraction

Henderson

2020

Environ Plan A

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Research on land grabs has identified the Gulf Arab states as major actors in the acquisition of agricultural land. However the role of these investments in the economies of the Gulf remains underexplored in the scholarly literature. In response, I propose that these projects are part of commodity chains that are articulated to the agribusiness industry in the Gulf states. I argue that they are extractive zones; enclaves created through articulation to the investor states, and disarticulation from their host society. With this considered, the commodity chains that link these projects with the Gulf economies transfer surplus value in the form of labour time, but also biophysical matter such as water, energy, and soil nutrients. This focus on the appropriation of nature allows a better understanding of these schemes and their role in the Gulf’s economic growth. As will be demonstrated, the cycle of exhaustion of water impells the location of these land grabs, and this context connects them with the history of domestic projects. This article uses a framework that integrates theory on the spatial contestations of commodity chains with work on political ecology, and by doing so it contributes to a growing body of work that examines the relationship between networks of commodity production and nature.

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Small farmers and the revolution in Egypt: the forgotten actors

Cited by 34 publications

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The rise of Arab Gulf agro-capital: continuity and change in the corporate food regime

The rise of Arab Gulf agro-capital: continuity and change in the corporate food regime

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Land grabs reexamined: Gulf Arab agro-commodity chains and spaces of extraction

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