Conflict, Food Insecurity and Globalization

Messer, Ellen; Cohen, Marc J.

doi:10.2752/155280107x211458

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“…Rodrik's results show that for the developing countries both external shocks (globalization) and latent frictions (conflicts) have negative effects on economic growth, the former because of the poor quality of institutions and the latter because of declining terms of trade, or the so-called Singer-Prebisch hypothesis. Messer and Cohen (2006) demonstrate this link between globalization and conflicts using crop prices. They argue that by opening up markets to external forces, globalization has caused crop export price to increase and to fluctuate unpredictably.…”

Section: Globalization and Peace And Stabilitymentioning

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Globalization, Peace & Stability, Governance, and Knowledge Economy

Amavilah¹,

Asongu

Andrés

2014

SSRN Journal

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A previous analysis of the impact of formal institutions on the knowledge economy of 22 MiddleEastern and Sub-Sahara African countries during the 1996-2010 time period concluded that formal institutions were necessary, but inadequate, determinants of the knowledge economy. To extend that study, this paper claims that globalization induces peace and stability, which affects governance and through governance the knowledge economy. The claim addresses one weakness of previous research that did not consider the effects on the knowledge economy of globalization.We model the proposition as a three-stage process in four hypotheses, and estimate each hypothesis using robust estimators that are capable of dealing with the usual statistical problems without sacrificing economic relevance and significance. The results indicate that globalization has varying effects on peace and stability, and peace and stability affect governance differently depending on what kind of globalization induces it. For instance, the effects on governance induced by globalization defined as trade are stronger than those resulting from globalization taken to be foreign direct investment. Hence, we conclude that foreign direct investment is not a powerful mechanism for stimulating and sustaining the knowledge economy in our sample of countries. However, since globalization-induced peace and stability have both positive and negative effects on governance simultaneously, we also conclude that while the prospect for knowledge economy in African countries is dim, it is still realistic and attainable as long as these countries continue to engage in the kind of globalization that does indeed induce peace and stability. We further conclude that there is a need for a sharper focus on economic and institutional governance than on general governance as one possible extension of this paper.

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Section: Globalization and Peace And Stabilitymentioning

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Globalization, Peace & Stability, Governance, and Knowledge Economy

Amavilah¹,

Asongu

Andrés

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…9 The link between food insecurity and conflict has recently been examined both in the context of food insecurity as a cause of conflict and conflict as a cause of food insecurity. 10 Conflict most often affects food supplies by destruction of crops, which further drives up the price of food due to lower supply and damage to social infrastructure affecting access to food. Furthermore, the destruction of food systems resulting in food insecurity causes discontent among civilians and further motivates fighting.…”

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The Effects of War on Iraq's Food System: A Historical Analysis and Proposal for Future Direction

Picotte

Campbell

2010

Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition

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“…As a consequence, the livelihoods and living standards of peasants depending on this income were endangered. A lack of support by the Colombian state led many directly into coca production, a business more lucrative and stable in terms of longtime employment (Mann, 2002;Messer & Cohen, 2006). There has been a lack of response from several presidents since the 1990s to the fluctuations in the market price of internal products because of their adherence to neoliberal economic policies and price structures driven by supply and demand, with their attendant prejudicial effects on agriculture.…”

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“We Live From Mother Nature”

2015

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This article explores how macroeconomic and environmental policies instituted since the 1990s have altered meanings, imaginaries, and the human relationship to nature in Colombia. The Colombian nation-state is pluri-ethnic, multilingual, and megabiodiverse. In this context, indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombians, and some peasant communities survive hybridization of their cultures. They have developed their own ways of seeing, understanding, and empowering the world over centuries of European rule. However, threats to relatively discrete cultural meanings have increased since major changes in the 1990s, when Colombia experienced the emergence of new and modern interpretations of nature, such as "biodiversity," and a deepening of globalized neoliberal economic and political management. These policies involve a modern logic of being in the world, the establishment of particular regulatory functions for economies, societies, and the environment, and their spread has been facilitated by webs of political and economic power. We trace their local effects with reference to three indigenous groups.

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Conflict, Food Insecurity and Globalization

Cited by 47 publications

References 18 publications

Globalization, Peace & Stability, Governance, and Knowledge Economy

Globalization, Peace & Stability, Governance, and Knowledge Economy

The Effects of War on Iraq's Food System: A Historical Analysis and Proposal for Future Direction

“We Live From Mother Nature”

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