The Governance of Gulf Agro-Investments

Globalizations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-104

  Woertz, Eckart ^a  

^a Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)   (Spain)

Author keywords

agro investments; food security; geopolitics; Gulf states; investment in agriculture; land acquisitions; Middle East; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Sudan; water

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874167630     PISSN: 14747731     EISSN: 1474774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2013.760932     Document Type: Article

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