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  • Food Access and the Logic of Violence During Civil War

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    Guest Contributor  //  May 15, 2017  //  By Ore Koren & Benjamin Bagozzi
    Afghan-fields

    In 1981, Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen noted that “starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.” Sen was referring to the idea that hunger is not always related to food supply; even in places where ample food exists, many people do not have regular access to it. Yet, more than three decades later, research into the effects of agriculture on armed conflict is still focused much more on the former than the latter.

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