Conclusion

Abstract

Abstract Chapter 9 begins with the promise of arid lands for feeding the world that was voiced in the wake of the food-energy-financial crisis of 2007–2009. The book’s thesis is re-stated of the importance of reclaimed, arid lands for the development of a corporate agri-food system in Egypt. More generally, land reclamation is significant world-historically as a set of practices commensurate with capital formation and development in land. A longue durée analysis highlights the role of this type of commodity frontier in historical capitalism. Lastly, the concluding chapter reviews key developments concerning the corporate agri-food system following the time period covered in this book, since the beginning of the Sisi administration in 2014. Highlighted are mega projects in the desert frontier, the Grand Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, industrial food growth, the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest on food subsidies and the Right to Food article in the 2014 constitution, and mounting sovereign debts.