Saudi Arabia's Quest for Food Security

Middle East Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-98

  Lippman, Thomas W ^a  

^a Middle Eastern Studies   (United States)

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EID: 77953919081     PISSN: 10611924     EISSN: 14754967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4967.2010.00428.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, The Agriculture Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2008), p. 1.
2. Unless otherwise noted, population figures and estimates are from the Population Reference Bureau, Washington D.C., at http://www.prb.org.
3. See news articles at http://www.riceonline.com/home.shtml.
4. U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, The Agriculture Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2008), p. 2.
5. For an overview of poverty in Saudi Arabia, see Kim Murphy, Saudis' Quicksand of Poverty, Los Angeles Times, May 16, 2003. According to Abdelmohsen Al-Akkas, former minister of social welfare, more than 2 million Saudi citizens subsist entirely on cash payments from the government (author's interview, Riyadh, May 2008).
6. The quotation appears in Cultivating Sustainable Agriclture, an article in special advertising section promoting Saudi Arabia, Foreign Affairs, November-December 2007.
7. U.S. National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2025, available at http://www.dni.gov/nic/PDF_2025/2025_Global_Trends_Final_Report.pdf
8. Saudi Arabia Ministry of Economy and Planning, Saudi Arabia: Long-Term Strategy 2025, section 3.1.2, part d.ii, online at http://www.undp.org.SA/SA/documents/ourwork/pr/long_term_strategy_2025.pdf
9. See http://www.agritrade.org/events/spring2009seminar.html.
10. See http://www.mofa.gov.sa/Detail.asp?InSectionID=3981&InNewsItemID=88796.
11. The Saudi Star project was widely reported in the regional press; see, for example, Les Visées de l'Arabie Saoudite sur les terres fertiles du continent, Jeune Afrique, December 1, 2009. Collected articles are at http://www.farmlandgrab.org.
12. The quotation is from a presentation at an agricultural trade policy conference in Salzburg, Austria, in May 2009, available online at http://www.agritrade.org/events/spring2009seminar.html.
13. Financial Times, March 4, 2009.
14. The Independent, May 3, 2009.
15. Author's interview, Riyadh, October 2009.
16. Author's interview, Riyadh, October 2009.
17. Text at http://farmlandgrab.org/8833
18. U.S. National Intelligence Council, Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World (November 2008).
19. Carin Smaller and Howard Mann, A Thirst for Distant Lands: Foreign Investment in Agricultural Land and Water, Winnipeg, International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2009, p. 3.
20. U.S.-Saudi Business Brief, Vol. 15, No. 5, p. 11.
21. See Liz Sly, Iraq in Throes of Environmental Catastrophe, Experts Say, Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2009.
22. For details, see Helen Metz, Saudi Arabia: A Country Study, published by the Library of Congress in 1992
23. Thomas W. Lippman, Inside the Mirage (Westview Press, 2004), Ch. 10.
24. U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service, GAIN Report No. SA8003, Feb. 19, 2008.
25. U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council, The Agriculture Sector in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2008), p. 1.
26. Author's interview, Riyadh, October 2009.
27. Author's interview, Riyadh, October 2009.
28. Author's interviews, Riyadh, October 2009.
29. Op. cit. note 18, p. 4.
30. Slides of the Saudi presentation are at http://www.agritrade.org/events/spring2009/seminar.html.
31. On rice, see http://internationaltradecommodities.suite101.com/article.cfm/rice_import_dependent_countries
32. on barley, see the slide presentation by Taha Alshareef of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry explaining the King Abdullah Initiative at http://www.agritrade.org/events/spring2009seminar.html.