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The Arab Uprisings and the Global Food Crisis

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28 Feb 2011 @ 12:45

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David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, Congo, Liberia), the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), and Central Asia. Now a writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor for The New Republic, he has written extensively about the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Rieff is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. He is currently completing a book about the global food crisis.


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Global food prices reached a record high in January 2011, surpassing even the levels seen during the 2007-08 food crisis. This latest surge in wholesale prices has been stoking inflationary pressures and triggering food riots across the developing world.

 

One manifestation of the crisis can be seen in the extraordinary uprisings in the Maghreb and the Arab Middle East, where, according to Rieff, the failure of official development aid policies has been an important contributory factor.

 

Rieff's presentation focused in particular on the issue of chronic malnutrition in children and the vicious cycle of poverty that this tends to engender.

 

This event was co-hosted by the IIEA and UCD's Clinton Institute for American Studies.

 

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