10.7910/DVN/5OGHBE Koren, Ore Ore Koren University of Minnesota Bagozzi, Benjamin Benjamin Bagozzi University of Delaware Harvard Dataverse 2016 Social Sciences Bagozzi, Benjamin Benjamin Bagozzi University of Delaware 2016-07-29 2016-07-29 2017-04-23 10.7910/DVN/5OGHBE/9LUC0X 10.7910/DVN/5OGHBE/EPUXNN 62843931 1071 1071 62837501 application/zipped-shapefile text/plain text/plain application/zipped-shapefile 2.0 Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. Food security has attracted widespread attention in recent years. Yet, scientists and practitioners have predominately understood food security in terms of dietary energy availability and nutrient deficiencies, rather than in terms of food security’s consequential implications for social and political violence. The present study offers the first global evaluation of the effects of food insecurity on local conflict dynamics. An economic approach is adopted to empirically evaluate the degree to which food insecurity concerns produce an independent effect on armed conflict using comprehensive geographic data. Specifically, two agricultural output measures – a geographic area’s extent of cropland and a given agricultural location’s amount of cropland per capita – are used to respectively measure the access to and availability of (i.e., the demand and supply of) food in a given region. Findings show that food insecurity measures are robustly associated with the occurrence of contemporary armed conflict.