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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.
Contents
1: Introduction: Frontier Making and the Ecology of Commercial Agriculture in Egypt
2: Food Crises and Revolt
3: The Dual Character of the Corporate Agri-food System
4: Land Reclamation in the Longue Durée
5: The Frontier and Export Plantation Economy of the Long 19th Century
6: Post-Colonial Frontier Making? State Land Reclamation and the Desert Frontier
7: Ghosts of Finance Pasts: The Return of Finance and Family Business Groups
8: Biosecurity and the Ending of Frontiers?
9: Conclusion: Frontiers and Corporate Food
Epilogue
