TY - JOUR
T1 - Marketing and Regional Integration for Food Security in the Arab World, Journal of Macromarketing, Vol.39, Issue 2, June 19.
AU - Bagnied, Mohsen
AU - Speece, Mark
N1 -  Bagnied, M. A., & Speece, M. (2019). Marketing and Regional Integration for Food Security in the Arab World. Journal of Macromarketing, 39(2), 115–135. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276146719835884
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region faces serious food insecurity, with an increasing gap between food production and consumption. Using resource advantage theory from macromarketing, we demonstrate that the agriculture / agribusiness industry would be highly competitive with economic integration of the Nile Valley (Egypt and Sudan) with the Arab Gulf countries. Individually, these sub-regions have critical disadvantages, but as a bloc, complementary strengths could make the industry quite competitive. Of course, integration within MENA has been discussed for decades, although usually as a political concept, which is unlikely to succeed in the foreseeable future. From a macromarketing perspective, economic integration is quite viable, and very beneficial to food security in the region.
AB - The Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region faces serious food insecurity, with an increasing gap between food production and consumption. Using resource advantage theory from macromarketing, we demonstrate that the agriculture / agribusiness industry would be highly competitive with economic integration of the Nile Valley (Egypt and Sudan) with the Arab Gulf countries. Individually, these sub-regions have critical disadvantages, but as a bloc, complementary strengths could make the industry quite competitive. Of course, integration within MENA has been discussed for decades, although usually as a political concept, which is unlikely to succeed in the foreseeable future. From a macromarketing perspective, economic integration is quite viable, and very beneficial to food security in the region.
UR - https://dspace.auk.edu.kw/handle/11675/7573
M3 - Article
VL - 39
JO - Sage
JF - Sage
IS - 2
ER -