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What Can the Social Sciences Bring to an Understanding of Food Security?

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Food security and politics have been closely linked since Joseph gained the pharaoh’s favour in early Egyptian times, by successfully interpreting his dreams.1 Joseph forecast seven years of plenty and seven years of harvest failure. This foresight allowed the pharaoh to gather and store the surplus in good times, to take his people through hard times without famine and revolt.

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  1. Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK

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  2. Lancaster University, UK

    Cary L. Cooper (Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health) (Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health)

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Toulmin, C. (2015). What Can the Social Sciences Bring to an Understanding of Food Security?. In: Michie, J., Cooper, C.L. (eds) Why the Social Sciences Matter. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137269928_8

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