In this section, I will examine in detail each stage of the baladi bread supply chain, from harvest to sale. After identifying conventional and non-conventional actors in the previous chapter, I will now look at how each of them contributes to the administration of key operations in the subsidy system and how, in practice, different operations are not as clear-cut as previously findings in the literature might suggest. Rather, by outlining the underlying political economy of each stage, I uncover a new reality of how the baladi bread supply chain actually operates. Each section describes one of the twelve stages and Figure 7 at the end of this chapter provides a comprehensive review and summary of the baladi bread supply chain process.
