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Christian Henderson

[Christian Henderson is a lecturer in international relations and modern Middle East studies at Leiden University.]

Extractive Agribusinesses—Guaranteeing Food Security in the Gulf
An irrigation system waters an alfalfa field in Butler Valley, Arizona belonging to Fondomonte, a subsidiary of the Saudi dairy company Almarai, 2023. Caitlin O’Hara for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesSatellite images show the expansion of irrigated land in the Toshka lakes area of Egypt from 2019 to 2023. Images sourced from the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science Center.
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Extractive Agribusinesses—Guaranteeing Food Security in the Gulf

The 2022 Food and Agriculture Organization report on food security and nutrition in the Arab region makes for bleak reading. Between 2014 and 2021, the total number of Arabs suffering from moderate to severe food insecurity increased from 120 million to 154 million.[1] This insecurity, however, was not distributed
Christian Henderson • 9 min read