{"id":1105,"date":"2011-02-16T09:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T06:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2018-04-07T19:52:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T16:52:01","slug":"food-security-and-the-challenges-of-the-arab-spring-by-dr-turki-faisal-al-rasheed-at-princeton-university-sept-27-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/food-security-and-the-challenges-of-the-arab-spring-by-dr-turki-faisal-al-rasheed-at-princeton-university-sept-27-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Security and the Challenges of the Arab Spring by Dr. Turki Faisal Al Rasheed at Princeton University Sept. 27, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/30949124?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Food shortages in the Asia-Pacific Region have contributed to soaring food prices.<br \/>\nSaudi Arabia has raised questions about the long-term prospects for food security.<br \/>\nThe Arab world imports 50 to 90 percent of the food calories they consume. They are the largest net importers of cereal.<\/p>\n<p>Arab countries are more exposed than other countries to food prices\u2019 volatility. Their vulnerability will worsen in coming years due to ballooning population growth, low agricultural productivity, and the dependence on a global commodities market. (The World Bank, 2009)<br \/>\nDiscussion of \u201csecurity\u201d, globally and locally, has dominated the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food shortages in the Asia-Pacific Region have contributed to soaring food prices. Saudi Arabia has raised questions about the long-term prospects for food security. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4948,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1105\/revisions\/4948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tfrasheed.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}