Explaining the African food riots of 2007–2008: An empirical analysis

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Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “Indeed, several recent studies draw a causal arrow from food price shocks to urban social unrest in contemporary Africa (Berazneva and Lee 2013, Smith 2014, Bellemare 2015), and some also link the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings to peaks in international food prices (Johnstone and Mazo 2011, Sternberg…”
‘Triple wins’ or ‘triple faults’? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) (2018, unknown): “…CSA occurred in parallel with a renewed interest by the international community in improving global food security to meet a rapidly growing population, following a series of food price spikes and food-related riots in over 30 countries in 2007 – 2008 (Berazneva and Lee 2013; Hossain et al. 2014).”
The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications (2020, background): “…context, the instabilities in the global price of grain and the obstacles to international free trade can potentially influence food security in China and other developing countries inAsia andAfrica (Jongwanich andPark 2011, Berazneva and Lee 2013, Mukhopadhyay et al 2018, Gawith and Hodge 2019).”