المسألة الزراعية: تحدي ثلاثة عقود من السياسات الزراعية النيوليبرالية

Abeer Abazeed

Abeer Abazeed is an assistant professor of political science at Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University (Egypt) and a research fellow at the Institute for Pan African Thought and Conversation (IPATC), University of Johannesburg (South Africa). She obtained her PhD degree from Leiden University (Netherlands) in the topic of the role of transboundary civil society in hydrpolitics of the Eastern Nile Basin by applying the social network analysis. Her publications in Arabic and English covering topics of Nile politics, transboundary civil society, and African political economy.

Mohamed Ramadan

Mohamed Ramadan is an Economic Researcher with 8+ years of experience in political economy, inequality, and financial analysis. He has co-authored influential Arabic books on food sovereignty and economic power in Egypt and contributed to research published by AUC, ARI, ANND, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, and TNI. He previously worked as a macroeconomist and financial analyst, focusing on Egypt’s economic trends and the U.S. equity market. Combining research depth with market insight, he bridges policy analysis and investment strategy. Mohamed also writes regularly for platforms like Mada Masr, Democracy Magazine, and AlSifr, bringing complex economic issues to wider public audiences.

Mohamed Hakeem

Researcher and consultant in social and cooperative economy and founder of the National Initiative to Support Cooperatives (COOP Egypt). Mr. Hakeem worked with many international and regional institutions. He designed the modern participatory training curriculum for cooperative management. Mr. Hakeem is the author of the book “Cooperatives and Development Questions”.

He currently holds the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Social and Cooperative Economy Network, which includes 13 institutions from 9 countries in the region.

Saker ElNour

Saker El Nour is a rural sociologist and non-resident research fellow at the Joint Research Unit (UMR) Development and Societies, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/IRD, Paris, and at CEDEJ Cairo. He is program director of the Action Network for a Just Transition in the Middle East and North Africa (RESEAU TANMO) and Principal Investigator of the British Library–funded project Nubian Archive (EAP1594). His research focuses on political ecology, rural sociology, agrarian political economy, agro-environmental policies, and Nubian heritage. His publications include Mrahrah Bread: The Political Economy of Food Sovereignty in Egypt (2021) and People and Water in Egypt: A Political Ecology Perspective (2023).

Oussama Chaabouni

Oussama Chaabouni holds a BSc in Information Management and an MA in Management Engineering and Consulting from the University of Sfax, and an MSc in Environment and Development from the University of Leeds. He worked in several NGOs and Development Consultancies focusing on environmental and economic justice in the Global South. His research has focused on transformative adaptation and the implications of equity and justice in development practice. Currently a Doctoral Candidate at the Universitat de Girona, investigating a critical approach to the transformation of water management through digitalisation and their environmental, political and ethical implications.

Mohamed Gamal

Mohamed Gamal is a Research Officer for the Pathways Beyond Neoliberalism: Voices from MENA, a Ford Foundation-funded research grant project. The project is under the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo. He is also a co-editor of the book "Agricultural Cooperatives in the Age of Neoliberalism." He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Cairo University; his research interests include civil society, state-society relations, religion and Politics, and the political economy of the MENA region.

Ahmed Heneiti

Ahmed Heneiti is a doctoral student in anthropology at the University of Paris-8. His PhD thesis looks at “Bedouins in the West Bank: Socio-economical transformations between colonial and global contexts”. He holds a master’s degree in Sociology from Birzeit University, with a focus on Palestinian agriculture and Bedouin communities. He has published two books in Arabic with the Institute of Palestine Studies, entitled “Bedouin Communities in the Central West Bank: a case study” (2018), and “Israeli Policy towards the Jordan Valley and Its Prospects” (2016).

Jun Borras

Jun Borras is a professor of agrarian studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and is part of the distinguished university professors program ('Erasmus Professors') for positive societal impact at EUR, Netherlands. He is also a Distinguished Professor at China Agricultural University in Beijing, and an associate of the Transnational Institute (TNI). He was the Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Peasant Studies for 15 years, until 2023. He is the lead editor of the ICAS small book series in peasant studies and agrarian change. His latest books are Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles (2023, with J.C. Franco) and Essential Concepts of Land Politics (2025, co-authored with J. C. Franco), as well as the edited collection, The Oxford Handbook of Land Politics (2025, co-edited with J.C. Franco).

Jan Douwe

Jan Douwe van der Ploeg is professor emeritus of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He was also linked, as adjunct professor to China Agricultural University in Beijing. He worked in Peru, Colombia, Italy, the Netherlands, Guinea Bissau, the Republic of South Africa, and China. He wrote several books and articles about farming and rural development. He prefers to operate on the interfaces between peasant movements, critical agrarian studies, and agricultural policies.’

Amr Khairy

Dr. Amr Khairy is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CEDEJ/Ifao, where he researches the social history of technology in nineteenth-century rural Egypt, and he is the editor of the Arabic ICAS book series.