Book contents
- Food or War
- Reviews
- FOOD or WAR
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Frontispiece
- 1 Food and Conflict: Premonitions
- 2 War and Hunger
- 3 The Strategic Importance of Food, Land and Water
- 4 Is ‘Agriculture’ Sustainable?
- 5 Hotspots for Food Conflict in the Twentyfirst Century
- 6 Food as an Existential Risk
- 7 Food for Peace
- 8 Urban Dreams and Nightmares
- 9 The Future of Food
- 10 Conclusion: Key Recommendations of this Book
- The Author
- Endnotes
- Index
7 - Food for Peace
Hunger and Conflict – Eco-wars – The Price of War – Hunger and Peace – Swords into Ploughshares
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 August 2019
- Food or War
- Reviews
- FOOD or WAR
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Frontispiece
- 1 Food and Conflict: Premonitions
- 2 War and Hunger
- 3 The Strategic Importance of Food, Land and Water
- 4 Is ‘Agriculture’ Sustainable?
- 5 Hotspots for Food Conflict in the Twentyfirst Century
- 6 Food as an Existential Risk
- 7 Food for Peace
- 8 Urban Dreams and Nightmares
- 9 The Future of Food
- 10 Conclusion: Key Recommendations of this Book
- The Author
- Endnotes
- Index
Summary
2500 conflicts, 40 wars, in first two decades of C21st. Role of hunger in conflict. Eco-wars and their prevention. The global cost of war. A better use for world arms budgets. Food spending as defence spending. A plan for peace through food.
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- Food or War , pp. 203 - 222Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019