We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...

The study investigated the effect of oil price shocks on the economies of four selected oil-exporting African countries from the period of the first quarter of 1980 to the fourth quarter of 2018 using a global vector autoregression. After carrying out all the preliminary tests such as the unit...