Replication Data for: From Global to Local, Food Insecurity is Associated with Contemporary Armed Conflictsdoi:10.7910/DVN/5OGHBEHarvard Dataverse2016-07-292Koren, Ore; Bagozzi, Benjamin, 2016, "Replication Data for: From Global to Local, Food Insecurity is Associated with Contemporary Armed Conflicts", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5OGHBE, Harvard Dataverse, V2Replication Data for: From Global to Local, Food Insecurity is Associated with Contemporary Armed Conflictsdoi:10.7910/DVN/5OGHBEKoren, OreBagozzi, BenjaminHarvard DataverseBagozzi, BenjaminBagozzi, Benjamin2016-07-29Social SciencesFood 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.<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>README.txttext/plainReplication Files.zipapplication/zipped-shapefile