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dc.contributor.authorBuhaug, Halvard
dc.contributor.authorBenjaminsen, Tor A
dc.contributor.authorSjaastad, Espen Olav
dc.contributor.authorTheisen, Ole Magnus
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-01T11:46:04Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-19T14:00:58Z
dc.date.available2016-02-01T11:46:04Z
dc.date.available2016-02-19T14:00:58Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationEnvironmental Research Letters 2015, 10:125015(12)nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1748-9326
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2379777
dc.description-nb_NO
dc.description.abstractEarlier research that reports a correlational pattern between climate anomalies and violent conflict routinely refers to drought-induced agricultural shocks and adverse economic spillover effects as a key causal mechanism linking the two phenomena. Comparing half a century of statistics on climate variability, food production, and political violence across Sub-Saharan Africa, this study offers the most precise and theoretically consistent empirical assessment to date of the purported indirect relationship. The analysis reveals a robust link between weather patterns and food production where more rainfall generally is associated with higher yields. However, the second step in the causal model is not supported; agricultural output and violent conflict are only weakly and inconsistently connected, even in the specific contexts where production shocks are believed to have particularly devastating social consequences. Although this null result could, in theory, be fully compatible with recent reports of food price-related riots, it suggests that the wider socioeconomic and political context is much more important than drought and crop failures in explaining violent conflict in contemporary Africa.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.relation.urihttp://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125015/meta;jsessionid=C6F63EE5ACAE66BD24BC997394F887CA.c4.iopscience.cld.iop.org
dc.rightsNavngivelse 3.0 Norge*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/*
dc.titleClimate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africanb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.date.updated2016-02-01T11:46:04Z
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125015
dc.identifier.cristin1306198


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