Chinese drought, bread and the Arab Spring

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Teleconnected food supply shocks (2016, background): “Such spatially disconnected climate events andmarket reactions, combined with the governance obstacles to adequately respond, are considered to have played an important role in the Arab Spring (Sternberg 2012, Werrell and Femia 2013).”
Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa (2015, background): “…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, for a different perspective, see Sneyd et al 2013).”
Interplay of trade and food system resilience: Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency (2020, background): “Additionally, through global trade, food systems are becoming increasingly interconnected and interdependent, meaning that disturbances and drivers in one place can cause synchronous shocks across other regions and sectors (Buldyrev et al., 2010; Sternberg, 2012; D'Odorico et al., 2014; Suweis et al”