Toward a Circular Economy in the MENA Region: Insights from the Water-Food Nexus

Al‐Saidi, Mohammad; Dehnavi, Sudeh

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-66380-3_9

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“…The MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region is experiencing a serious lack of food supply for domestic requirements, hence making it very reliant on imported food (Siam, 2009;Alboghdady & El-Hendawy, 2016). The MENA region is the largest food importer in the world and the majority of its countries have an extremely low subsistence level in food production (Daghir et al, 2021;Al-Saidi and Dehnavi, 2021). The research by Sadler and Magnan (2011) found that this is because most countries in the MENA region not only have arid land but also limited water resources and agricultural land.…”

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Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Hasan Adali,

Abdul Jabar,

Ismail

et al. 2024

IJARBSS

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The MENA region is one of the most rapidly expanding food and beverage marketing platforms in the world. Malaysia as an international halal hub sees the MENA region as an important target for the export market of halal food products. Various efforts have been outlined and implemented towards accelerating the export activity to that region. Hence, this research was conducted to analyse the food ecosystem in the MENA region and the landscape of the halal food market there in detail and comprehensively. This research is a qualitative research which uses the literature review method entirely for the collection and analysis of data. The findings of the research are that the food products which are the main imports for the population in the MENA region are cereal, dairy products, meat, fruit and nuts, food preparation products, vegetables, vegetable fat and animal fat based products, coffee products, tea and spices, cereal and pastry preparation products, as well as sugar and honey products. The findings of this research are useful as it is a reference for the decision makers in the halal food industry in Malaysia who intend to market food products in the MENA region.

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Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Hasan Adali,

Abdul Jabar,

Ismail

et al. 2024

IJARBSS

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“…Secondly, the political and cultural ties in GCC countries are strong, due to the fact that these countries are deeply influenced by the civil law legal system (Pillai & Al-Malkawi, 2018). Thirdly, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into GCC countries account for more than 55% of total FDI inflows into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (Saidi & Prasad, 2018). Figure 1 shows the FDI inflows of the selected GCC countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain).…”

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IFRS innovation, governance practices and firm performance: A new empirical assessment of moderating effects across GCC region

Alruwaili,

Ahmed,

Joshi

2023

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Research background: Despite the large volume of research which has been conducted, the association between corporate governance mechanisms and firm performance remains a controversial issue, particularly with the growth of accounting settings around the world. Purpose of the article: This study assesses the moderating role of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on the association between corporate governance mechanisms and firm performance in selected Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country-listed firms, namely Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, and United Arab Emirates over the period 2016–2019. Methods: Importantly, we examine the direct and indirect influences of royal family members on long-term firm performance. We attempt to answer our research questions using robust estimation methods such as pooled OLS, fixed effect, random effect and first difference models. Findings & value added: The outcome reveals a significant and positive impact of firm size and board size on the firm performance in the pooled sample, while there is a significantly negative influence of financial leverage on firm performance. The impact of RFP on FP is seen to be negative and significant while the interaction term is found to be positive and statistically significant. This notably refers to the possibility that royal family directors could play an essential role in influencing the executive management team to fully react to provide extensive voluntary disclosure and comply with IFRS adoption. Our simultaneous quantile regression analysis displays the influence of corporate governance mechanisms on firm performance in various stages. While we observe that IFRS transformation has improved information comparability, policy makes in GCC countries should continue to foster conducive environment to support innovative business practices that help diversify their economies.

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“…Previous related studies mainly focus on the interactions between any two of the subsystems, the water-energy nexus (Ahmad et al, 2020), the water-food nexus (Al-Saidi and Dehnavi, 2021), and the energy-food nexus (Ladha-Sabur et al, 2019). For example, Using the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei city cluster as an example, Liu et al (2021) developed a new framework for assessing the water-energy nexus that can be used to identify priority regions and sectors for water and energy conservation.…”

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Key points for green management of water-energy-food in the Belt and Road Initiative: Resource utilization efficiency, final demand behaviors and trade inequalities

Qian

Liang

Liu

et al. 2022

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Toward a Circular Economy in the MENA Region: Insights from the Water-Food Nexus

Cited by 4 publications

References 49 publications

Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

IFRS innovation, governance practices and firm performance: A new empirical assessment of moderating effects across GCC region

Key points for green management of water-energy-food in the Belt and Road Initiative: Resource utilization efficiency, final demand behaviors and trade inequalities

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