Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Social Unrest

By Marc F. Bellemare. 2015

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Asymmetric risk spillovers between oil and agricultural commodities (2018, background): “Agricultural commodity price increases could also be directly and indirectly linked to causative factors of social unrest, with the potential to cause political instability at national, regional or even global levels (Bellemare, 2014).”
2017 Global Hunger Index: The inequalities of hunger (2017, background): “Between 2007 and 2012, riots erupted in more than 30 countries, shaping the political and policy responses to food crises during these years (Berazneva and Lee 2013; Hendrix and Haggard 2015; Arezki and Bruckner 2011; Bellemare 2015; Schneider 2008).”
Teleconnected food supply shocks (2016, background): “But taken together, events like these can create amixture of conditions that could provide a window of opportunity for riots and revolution in the Arabworld and other countries (Bellemare 2015).”
The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa (2017, unknown): “More recently, Bellemare (2015) and van Weezel (2016) find that higher food prices are linked to civil unrest at the country level.”
Food security and conflict: Empirical challenges and future opportunities for research and policy making on food security and conflict (2019, background): “In this regard, the most convincing evidence is provided by Bellemare (2015), who forcefully argues that increases in food price levels cause urban unrest, while those in food price volatility do not.”
Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “…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 2012,…”
Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “Low-income households, for whom food represents a larger portion of income, are more vulnerable to price spikes than middle- and high-income households (Bellemare 2014).”
Abandoning the concept of renewable energy (2019, background): “, 2010), which could lead to increased food prices, causing major problems for the poorest people and potentially resulting in societal unrest (Bellemare, 2014).”