Food Dependency in the Middle East and North Africa Region Retrospective Analysis and Projections to 2050 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Le Mouël, Chantal (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Schmitt, Bertrand (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Agriculture.; Climate change.; Sustainable development.; Agricultural economics.; Computer simulation.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Sustainable Development.; Agricultural Economics.; Simulation and Modeling.

At present, 40% of the agri-food needs of the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA) region is covered by imports, whereas this figure was just about 10% in the beginning of the 1960's. Demographic growth and diet change has combined to increase food demand while the region's agricultural pro...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Introduction: A fragile region notable for its growing dependence on agricultural imports
• Chapter 1: Determinants of the growing food dependence (1961-2011)
• 1. Food and agricultural demand: growing and changing in nature
• 2. Growth in agricultural production: limited by constraints affecting production factors
• 3. Growing need of agricultural imports
• 4. Imbalance between supply and demand: uncertainties for the future
• Chapter 2: By 2050, a possible strengthening of the regional dependence on agricultural imports
• 1. In 2050, the need for land would still exceed availability
• 2. Growing recourse to agricultural imports
• 3. Agricultural labour productivity could deteriorate
• 4. By 2050, strengthening of import dependence, notably in case of accentuated effects of climate change
• Chapter 3: Brakes and levers to reduce the dependence on imports in the Middle East-North Africa region
• 1. Alternative hypotheses on food consumption often lead to increased imports
• 2. Hypotheses for more favourable development of domestic supply
• 3. The effects of halving losses and waste in agricultural products
• 4. Which levers for reducing import dependence of the Middle East-North Africa region?
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Annex 1: The GlobAgri-Pluriagri model and database
• Annex 2: The composition of the 36 products and 17 geographical zones in GlobAgri-Pluriagri.