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The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East — mentioned by jerry1979

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 19:25:16 GMT

>The author perhaps underestimates the bottom 90%, who are written off as politically irrelevant [...] but we are only one true crisis away from that changing. [...] When crops and supply chains fail and famine kicks in, who is going hungry? Regarding the first point, some people have noticed that food price changes can lead to revolts [1], but I'm not sure that says anything about the political power of the bottom 90% nor whether those revolts would lead to meaningful change. I imagine any food revolt in the US would mirror the Revolutions of 1848 [2]. [1]…

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The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East — HN submission

Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:44:27 GMT

Food Crises and Political Instability in N. Africa and Middle East (2011) [pdf]

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The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East — mentioned by dhx

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:23:42 GMT

For data going back to 1990 see [1] and [2]. In figure 2, the paper [3] tries to fit the data to an exponential curve starting at 2004. The longer term data at [2] does not appear to support this fit. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#1990s_-_2000 [2] http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesind... [3] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.2455v1.pdf

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The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East — HN submission

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 10:25:04 GMT

The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East

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The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East — mentioned by mwhite

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:48:04 GMT

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.2455v1

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