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Food Riots and Protest: Agrarian Modernizations and Structural Crises

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  • Bush, Ray
  • Martiniello, Giuliano

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Food riots in the developing world have (re)gained momentum coinciding with converging financial, food, and global energy crises of 2007–08. High staple food prices across the world, and increasingly un-regulated food markets, have highlighted among other things the political dimensions of food-related protests. This has been the case especially in the MENA region but also in Sub Saharan Africa, East Asia, and Latin America where food-related protests have often been catalysts to contest wider processes of dissatisfaction with authoritarian and corrupt regimes.

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  • Bush, Ray & Martiniello, Giuliano, 2017. "Food Riots and Protest: Agrarian Modernizations and Structural Crises," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 91(C), pages 193-207.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:91:y:2017:i:c:p:193-207
    DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.10.017
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