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Food Regimes and the Politics of Conflict
Jane Harrigan (SOAS), Nicholas Vagen-Weeks (SOAS) and David Keen (LSE)
The dynamic inter-linkages between food security and conflict are increasingly being recognised as key issues in both conflict studies and work on food and nutrition security. Food and conflict have become intimately related in many conflict zones such as in current day Syria and Somalia and famine studies have long acknowledged the importance of war famine. Lack of food security and struggles over food-related natural resources such as land can be important sources and triggers of conflict whilst conflict itself usually worsens food and nutrition security. It does so in two ways. Firstly indirectly by threatening entitlements to food and increasing vulnerabilities, for example via the disruption of agricultural production and secondly, more directly when food is used as a weapon of war for example by withholding food or food aid from certain groups or plundering resources such as cattle and livestock. More recently, it has also been acknowledged that food issues are important in the transition from conflict and in rebuilding post-conflict societies and that this has to be approached from a political as well as a socio-economic perspective. This panel aims to draw together several papers on this topic making use of diverse country studies from both an academic and development practitioner perspective.
This episode features Panel 4 of the Workshop on ‘Political Economy Approaches to Food Regimes.’ This one-day workshop, was organised by the SOAS University of London Food, Nutrition and Health in Development Research Custer and brought together topics in contemporary food regime studies examined from a political economy perspective. Topics included inequality and food security, the state and food sovereignty, food regimes and the politics of conflict and financialisation of food.
Paper One: ‘Food Security in Palestine - The Effects of Occupation on Policy Space’ by Prof Jane Harrigan (SOAS University of London, UK)
Paper Two: ‘The Political Economy of Food in the Syria Crisis’ by Nicholas Vagen-Weeks (SOAS University of London, UK)
Paper Three: ‘Starving Them: Causes and Functions in Sudan, Syria and Yemen’ by Professor David Keen (LSE, UK)
Organiser: SOAS University of London Food, Nutrition and Health in Development Research Custer
Event Date: 19 January 2018
Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast
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Jane Harrigan (SOAS), Nicholas Vagen-Weeks (SOAS) and David Keen (LSE)
The dynamic inter-linkages between food security and conflict are increasingly being recognised as key issues in both conflict studies and work on food and nutrition security. Food and conflict have become intimately related in many conflict zones such as in current day Syria and Somalia and famine studies have long acknowledged the importance of war famine. Lack of food security and struggles over food-related natural resources such as land can be important sources and triggers of conflict whilst conflict itself usually worsens food and nutrition security. It does so in two ways. Firstly indirectly by threatening entitlements to food and increasing vulnerabilities, for example via the disruption of agricultural production and secondly, more directly when food is used as a weapon of war for example by withholding food or food aid from certain groups or plundering resources such as cattle and livestock. More recently, it has also been acknowledged that food issues are important in the transition from conflict and in rebuilding post-conflict societies and that this has to be approached from a political as well as a socio-economic perspective. This panel aims to draw together several papers on this topic making use of diverse country studies from both an academic and development practitioner perspective.
This episode features Panel 4 of the Workshop on ‘Political Economy Approaches to Food Regimes.’ This one-day workshop, was organised by the SOAS University of London Food, Nutrition and Health in Development Research Custer and brought together topics in contemporary food regime studies examined from a political economy perspective. Topics included inequality and food security, the state and food sovereignty, food regimes and the politics of conflict and financialisation of food.
Paper One: ‘Food Security in Palestine - The Effects of Occupation on Policy Space’ by Prof Jane Harrigan (SOAS University of London, UK)
Paper Two: ‘The Political Economy of Food in the Syria Crisis’ by Nicholas Vagen-Weeks (SOAS University of London, UK)
Paper Three: ‘Starving Them: Causes and Functions in Sudan, Syria and Yemen’ by Professor David Keen (LSE, UK)
Organiser: SOAS University of London Food, Nutrition and Health in Development Research Custer
Event Date: 19 January 2018
Released by: SOAS Economics Podcast