ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND SECURITY PROGRAM
REPORT 2013
VOL
14
ISSUE
03
BY
Emmy Simmons
HARVESTING PEACE:
Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation
SUGGESTED CITATION
Simmons, Emmy. (2013).
Harvesting Peace: Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation
(Environmental Change & Security Program Report Vol. 14, Issue 3). Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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ECSP REPORTSeries Editor:
Meaghan Parker
Issue Editors:
Lauren Herzer Risi and Schuyler Null
Design and Production:
Lianne Hepler
Cover Photograph:
Unemployed Palestinian workers hold bread and a spoon in front of riot during a protest to demand jobs in front of the Palestinian parliament building in Gaza August 29, 2006. ©REUTERS/Mohammed Salem (GAZA)
ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND SECURITY PROGRAM
REPORT 2013
BY
Emmy Simmons
HARVESTING PEACE:
Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation
CONTENTS
Abbreviations
2
Executive Summary
3I.
Introduction
6II.
How Does Conflict Affect Food Security?
11III.
How Does Food Insecurity Contribute to Conflict?
18IV.
Intervening to Reduce Conflict and Food Insecurity
23 V.
Implications for Development Programming
34 ANNEX:
Integrating Food Security Variables Into
43
Theories of ConflictReferences
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HARVESTING PEACE:
Food Security, Conflict, and Cooperation
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