The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt

The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt

by Marion W. Dixon
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 05/08/2023

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This book details the development and growth of a corporate agri-food system in Egypt. The system includes food processing and an animal protein complex largely for corporate consumer markets in the country-from street kiosks to fast food outlets to hypermarkets-and fresh fruits and vegetables largely for export. Marion W. Dixon demonstrates the importance of reclaimed lands, or frontiers, for the development and growth of the corporate agri-food system since the 1980s. Various forces, including multiple threats from plant and animal diseases (the Avian flu, especially) have pushed and pulled agribusiness to new lands. This system's growth has also rested on imports and contract farming. As a result, dependence on food imports has grown. What agriculturalists grow has changed toward processing vegetables and animal protein, and what Egyptians eat has changed toward foods/drinks high in unhealthy fats, sugars, and sodium. Through mixed-methods research in Egypt between 2008 and 2012, The Frontiers of Corporate Food in Egypt shows how the growth of corporate food has contributed to growing food insecurity and to multiplying threats to public health from chronic and infectious diseases.

ISBN:
9780192654687
9780192654687
Category:
Agricultural economics
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
05-08-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
OUP Oxford

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