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One and a half billion people still live in fragile, conflict affected areas. People in these countries are about twice … direct consequence of conflict: conflict reduces food availability by destroying agricultural assets and infrastructure. …
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Policymakers, practitioners, and researchers frequently cite an increase in shocks around the world as a reason for focusing on resilience. But have shocks actually increased or become more severe and farâ€reaching? What does the landscape of shocks look like?
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Food insecurity at the national and household level not only is a consequence of conflict but can also cause and drive … conflicts. This paper makes the case for an even higher priority for food security–related policies and programs in conflict …
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Recent policy statements refer to increasingly frequent and intense shocks as one of the main reasons for focusing attention and investments on building resilience for food and nutrition security. This paper investigates whether shocks have actually increased in frequency, severity, scope, and...
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linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
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It is well-established that armed political conflict has a detrimental effect on food security and household welfare …: conflict induces food insecurity by reducing own food production, access to food through the market, and various other … conflict-affected households in Northern Uganda. We employ propensity score matching to estimate the average treatment effect …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary diversity in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the true … impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across … in the worst-hit conflict areas and individuals who are the direct victims of the conflict having lower dietary diversity …
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