Food, Development, and Politics in the Middle East

Marvin G. Weinbaum

1. The Region: Its Food Potential and Constraints 1.1. The Food Deficit 1.2. The National Picture 1.3. Food and Assistance Systems 2. The Agricultural Sector in Development Policy 2.1. A Sectoral Profile 2.2. The Political Context 2.3. National Investment Strategies 3. Agrarian Development Goals and Strategies, and Class Inequalities 3.1. The Structure of Classes 3.2. Distributive Strategies 3.3. Reformative Strategies 3.4. Institutional Strategies: Cooperative Schemes 3.5. Institutional Strategies: Collectives 3.6. Basic Needs and Class Interests 4. Bureaucratic Values, Structures and Decisions 4.1. The Patrimonial System 4.2. Policy Implementation: Center and Periphery 4.3. Reform and Administrative Decentralization 4.4. Bureaucratic Decision Styles 5. Food Aid, Trade and Development Assistance 5.1. US Food Aid and Trade 5.2. US Food Aid and Foreign Policy 5.3. Assistance Programs and Trade: Europe and the Communist States 5.4. Multilateral Development and Financial Assistance 5.5. Intraregional Economic Assistance 5.6. Assistance and Domestic Policies 5.7. The Food-Oil Link 6. Food and Political Stability 6.1. Food and Urban Violence 6.2. Rural Discontent 6.3. Conflict and Production 6.4. Islamic Resurgence and Agrarian Policy 6.5. Prospects for the 1980s