Oil for Food - The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East - Bog af Eckart (Senior Research Fellow Associate at the Barcelona Centre for International

Oil for Food - The Global Food Crisis and the Middle East - Eckart (Senior Research Fellow Associate at the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs

Oil for Food draws on extensive sources and interviews to tell the story of how Arab Gulf countries reacted to the 2008 global food crisis. It argues against the hype created around so called land grabs and analyzes the geopolitical implications behind the investment drive of Arab Gulf countries in food insecure countries like Sudan or Pakistan.