Humanitarian Relief and Civil Conflict

Blouin, Max; Pallage, Stéphane

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“…The warlords may optimize their recruitment and violence strategies to ensure that populations in their regions are poor and needy enough to persuade food agencies to allocate their resources there. At the same time, the warlords may limit the size of their armies and the information about them, as greater relief efforts may be available for regions with fewer insurgents (Blouin & Pallage 2008).…”

Section: Aid Conflict and Policy Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

War, Conflict, and Food Insecurity

Shemyakina

2022

Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ.

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This article reviews the literature at the intersection of war, armed conflict, and food security, focusing on intergroup violent conflicts such as interstate conflict, civil war, insurgencies, state violence toward civilians, riots, and nonstate conflict. We briefly discuss recent trends in conflict and food security and note the channels through which conflict may impact food security in developing countries. Next, we review the quantitative literature, studying the pathways between conflict and food security and their effects on child health and household coping strategies, displacement, changes in factors of production, market and travel restrictions, and insurgent predation. The effect of food insecurity on conflict, related to limited access to land and shocks to commodity prices, is discussed. We briefly survey the effects of aid and assistance programs and then discuss the connection between climate change, conflict, and food security. The review concludes by identifying topics in this field that are ripe for future research. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Resource Economics, Volume 14 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Aid Conflict and Policy Interventionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

War, Conflict, and Food Insecurity

Shemyakina

2022

Annu. Rev. Resour. Econ.

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“…Although the Samaritan's dilemma, in the context of humanitarian aid, is significantly more difficult to solve than in typical aid relationships, the authors propose a self-enforcing contract that does address the problem. In a different paper, Blouin and Pallage (2008) show that humanitarian aid agencies are not deprived of means to influence conflicts on the ground: they can use warlords' greed to influence warfare by designing conditional aid delivery schedules. In the present paper, we put the spotlight on the micro-foundations of an equilibrium involving two belligerants, their respective population and an aid agency.…”

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Warlords, famine and food aid: Who fights, who starves?

Blouin¹,

Pallage²

2016

European Journal of Political Economy

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We thank Joost de Laat, Claude Fluet and Elena Panova for comments on earlier drafts. This research was financed by grants from SSHRC (Canada) and FQRSC (Quebec). Abstract:We examine the effects of famine relief efforts (food aid) in regions undergoing civil war. In our model, warlords seize a fraction of all aid and use it to feed soldiers. They hire their troops within a population of farmers heterogeneous in skills. We determine the equilibrium distribution of labor in this environment and study how the existence and allocation strategies of a benevolent food aid agency affect this equilibrium. Our model allows us to precisely predict who will fight and who will work in every circumstance.

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“…Empirical evidence also supports the claim of potential spoils of war as incentive for conflict (Collier, Hoeffler and Söderbom 2004), though existing contextual factors such as severe social inequality and low per capita income (Collier, Hoeffler and Söderbom 2004;Elbadawi and Sambanis 2000) may play a greater role in determining the outbreak of conflict. The food aid 'curse' disincentivizes kleptocratic rulers from action if humanitarian aid is forthcoming (Blouin and Pallage 2007). Humanitarian agencies face a 'Samaritan's dilemma', in which the supply of food aid in turn perversely creates a demand for assistance.…”

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Mapping the Impacts of Food Aid: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

Margolies

Hoddinott

2012

SSRN Journal

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This paper provides an overview on the impacts of food aid. We consider its effects on consumption, nutrition, food markets and labour supply, as well as the extent to which it exacerbates or mitigates conflict. We also consider the comparative evidence on alternatives to food aid including evidence on cost, impact, relative risks and beneficiary preferences. We note that there are two large gaps in the extant literature: the comparative effects of food and cash assistance at the household level; and the causal links between food aid and conflict.

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Humanitarian Relief and Civil Conflict

Cited by 24 publications

References 31 publications

War, Conflict, and Food Insecurity

War, Conflict, and Food Insecurity

Warlords, famine and food aid: Who fights, who starves?

Mapping the Impacts of Food Aid: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

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