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The Middle Eastern Village
Author: Richard Lawless
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-05-31
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 1000948501
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rapid and uneven change to the fabric of rural life is widespread in modern Middle Eastern countries. Modernisation, usually in the Western model, has often brought major improvements in agricultural technology, education and public health but has also had the effect of weakening the traditional rural economy of many villages and encouraging their growing dependence on external sources of income, most notably oil remittances. This collection of research on the Middle Eastern village looks at the impact on rural life and environment of such factors as the mass exodus of labour to urban centres, emigration, immigration, environmental change and the changing role of women in rural communities – particularly the wives of migrant workers who have to fill a new role in the family structure. State-sponsored agrarian policies have weakened the power of traditional landed interests and together with labour migration have provoked new tension and inequalities in rural society. The book makes clear that the pattern of change has been highly uneven and has served to heterogenise the countryside. As the oil states enter a period of recession and the likelihood of substantial return migration increases, rural communities will need to make further major adjustments and the book examines the tensions this new development is likely to produce. First published in 1987.
The Middle Eastern Village (RLE Economy of Middle East)
Author: Richard Lawless
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781138811836
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rapid and uneven change to the fabric of rural life is widespread in modern Middle Eastern countries. Modernisation, usually in the Western model, has often brought major improvements in agricultural technology, education and public health but has also had the effect of weakening the traditional rural economy of many villages and encouraging their growing dependence on external sources of income, most notably oil remittances. This collection of research on the Middle Eastern village looks at the impact on rural life and environment of such factors as the mass exodus of labour to urban centres, emigration, immigration, environmental change and the changing role of women in rural communities - particularly the wives of migrant workers who have to fill a new role in the family structure. State-sponsored agrarian policies have weakened the power of traditional landed interests and together with labour migration have provoked new tension and inequalities in rural society. The book makes clear that the pattern of change has been highly uneven and has served to heterogenise the countryside. As the oil states enter a period of recession and the likelihood of substantial return migration increases, rural communities will need to make further major adjustments and the book examines the tensions this new development is likely to produce. First published in 1987.
The Rural Community and Its "development" in the Arab World
Agriculture and economic transformation in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of the past with lessons for the future
Author: Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2017-12-31
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0896292959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The agriculture sector is key for economic and social development, but the sector’s potential has not received enough attention from policy makers and stakeholders in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Political transitions, instability, and the resulting refugee crisis have shifted focus away from other pressing development challenges, including slow progress in economic diversification, high unemployment, and persistent high food insecurity and rural poverty. Despite its small contribution to GDP, agriculture is strategic for sustainable development in the MENA countries. Agriculture, for example, is central to achieve food and water security in a region characterized as one of the most food insecure and water scarce in the world. The sector’s role in employment is also central, given the region’s high structural unemployment. However, it will not be possible for MENA countries to develop agriculture without a pathway to structural economic transformation. The region has already started the process of transformation but longstanding challenges remain. This report aims to examine the drivers, constraints, and social implications of agricultural development in MENA and to explore possible cornerstones for new and sustainable development strategies in the context of economic transformation. More specifically, the report provides answers to the following questions: • What development strategies and policies did governments in MENA put in place over the past three decades and how did they affect the performance of agriculture? • How did the structural characteristics of the MENA countries affect agricultural development and the economic transformation process in the region? • What did we learn from the past performance of agriculture? What should be the central elements guiding future agricultural policies? • What are elements of a new and sustainable development strategy in MENA countries? • What is the role of agriculture and agro-industries for development in MENA?
The Agricultural Development of the Middle East
Author: Bernard Augustus Keen
Publisher:
Published: 1946
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report was produced for the Middle East Supply Centre, an institution set up by the British in 1941 to supply and/or keep supplies for basic life needs open to populations in the Middle East over which Britain had control. This is the first in a series of four. (The second volume is on non-agricultural scientific surveys of the Middle East.) This report identifies problems for agricultural development, including social factors, scientific and technical problems such as soil quality, and farmer information about new techniques.
Social and Economic Development in the Arab Gulf (RLE Economy of Middle East)
Author: Tim Niblock
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 131759178X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The crucial importance of the Gulf region today – which may be defined as comprising the states of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, with Iran as a non-Arab onlooker – has stimulated surprisingly little interest in academic circles. Much of what has been written, moreover, focuses exclusively on those aspects of direct concern to external interests. The focus of this book is on the Gulf region as an area with its own problems of social, economic and political development. It examines the dimensions of the attempts by the governments and peoples of the area to create new social, economic and political structures – stemming mainly, of course, from their new-found oil wealth. First published in 1980.
Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East
Author: Kurt Engelmann
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2016-04-18
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0295999756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rural Development in Eurasia and the Middle East: Land Reform, Demographic Change, and Environmental Constraints
The Economic Development of the Middle East
Author: Alfred Bonne
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-04
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1136227784
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1998. This is Volume II of eleven in the Economics and Society series. This book provides an outline of the economic development of the Middle East and planned reconstruction and the problems of transformation after the war.
OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2018-2027
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-07-03
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9264062033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fourteenth joint edition of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook provides market projections for major agricultural commodities, biofuels and fish, as well as a special feature on the prospects and challenges of agriculture and fisheries in the Middle East and North Africa.
