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Harvesting peace: Food security, conflict, and cooperation [1]

Since 2008, when rapid increases in the prices for major grains helped to trigger outbreaks of civil unrest in more than 40 countries, scholars and policymakers have paid increased attention to the potential influence of global food prices on social and political instability. Compelling and provocative headlines have suggested that there is a direct relationship between food insecurity and conflict. However, Harvesting Peace: Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation – finds that the story is more complicated than those claims often imply.

Publication Date: 
01/09/2013
Emmy Simmons [2]
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars [3]
Tags:
Food Security [4], Conflicts [5], Food Prices [6], Governance [7], Famine [8], Politics [9], Private Sector [10], Public Sector [11], Finance [12], Food Supply [13]
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