Arab Food Supply is Shaky, But Related Research is Rare

By Benjamin Plackett, Selim Njeim. “Food security” is the term that researchers began using in the late 1990s as they shifted their focus from stopping famines to studying the long-term ability of families or countries to have an adequate food supply. Interest in the field increased after the 2008 global spike in food prices, due to a variety of factors ranging from changing diets to rising energy costs. More...