Spatial orders of hunger: food insecurity in North Africa (B08)

• Subject Area: Human Geography
• Term: from 2016 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 266371360

Ever since the combination of the global food price crises (2007/08; 2010/11) with the international financial crisis, the power to prevent urban food insecurity, especially in North Africa, has no longer been in the hands of national governments alone. Globalization processes in the world food system (corporate control, financialization, land grabbing, etc.) directly influence household income, affecting spatial reordering - that is to say, local spaces of hunger as well as spaces for the production of, protest against, and involvement with hunger - which often bypass the state. These new social landscapes emerge from territories as well as through networks and discourses. This project investigates the transformation of spaces of hunger in North Africa since the Arab Spring.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1199: Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
• Applicant Institution: Universität Leipzig
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Jörg Gertel