Includes bibliographical references and index.

This volume sets out to explore the dialectic relating agriculture, crisis and conflict, and attempts to expand the knowledge on these interactions. Part 1 of the volume (chapters 1-6) discusses thematic issues and methodological approaches to understanding the intersection of agriculture, crisis and conflict. Part 2 (chapters 7-20) provides case studies that take a detailed approach to understanding agricultural contexts facing crisis and conflict, or the role played by agriculture within crisis and conflict. Studies are selected from areas that might be expected to feature in such a volume (the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Latin America) as well as less obvious regions where conflict within agriculture refers not to widespread violence or wars but rather latent or simmering crisis (Central Asia and Europe). Crises stemming from politically-driven violence, natural disasters and climate change are covered, as well as competition over resources.

Agriculture, Conflict and the Agrarian Question in the 21st Century / Rachel Bahn and Rami Zurayk -- Geopolitics, Food and Agriculture / Eckart Woertz -- Climate Change and Conflict: Agriculture, Migration and Institutions / Martin Smidt and Ole Magnus Theisen -- Water, Agriculture and Conflict: Global, National and Local Analysis of Conflict in MENA, sub-Saharan Africa and the United States / Martin Keulertz -- Illegal Drug Plant Cultivation and Armed Conflicts: Case Studies from Asia and Northern Africa / Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy -- Remote Sensing and GIS-based Technologies for Assessing the Impact of Conflict on Agricultural Production / Hadi Jaafar -- The 'Arab Spring' in North Africa: Egypt and Tunisia / Ray Bush -- Degraded Capital Formation: the Achilles' Heel of Syria's Agriculture / Linda Matar -- Crisis and Agricultural Change in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, 1980s-2010s: an Interdisciplinary Approach / Lina Eklund and Katharina Lange -- Yemen's Agricultural World: Crisis and Prospects / Max Ajl -- Farming for Freedom: the Shackled Palestinian Agricultural Sector / Alaa Tartir -- Games without Frontiers: Development, Crisis and Conflict in the African Agro-Pastoral Belt / Michele Nori and Edoardo Baldaro -- Border Change and Conflict in Central Asia: the Case of Agro-Pastoral Communities in Cross-Border Areas of the Ferghana Valley / Asel Murzakulova and Ir�ene Mestre -- Conflict and Resistance in Southern Punjab: a Political Ecology of the 2010 Floods in Pakistan / Ali Nobil Ahmad -- India: Rural Roots of Naxalite-Maoist Insurgency / Archana Prasad -- Agrarian Transition, Adaptation and Contained Conflict in Cambodia and Vietnam since the 1990s / Christophe Gironde -- Beyond Displacement by Armed Conflict: the Relationship Between Environmental, Economic and Armed Displacement in Colombia / Carolina Castro Osorio and Edinso Culma -- Prior Consultation and the Defence of Indigenous Lands in Latin America / Marcela Torres Wong -- The Political Mediation of Indigenous Land Conflicts in Argentina / Matthias vom Hau -- The Role of Land Reform in Rural Development: Promoting Productivity or Democracy? / Matthew Hoffman.

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