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New Research: Food Riots, Governance and Climate Change
This is a cross-post from New Security Beat by Cullen Hendrix
*We draw special attention to the conclusion of the article (emphasis added):
Our research suggests that reducing urban biases, like food subsidies, may be good pro-poor policy, given the continued concentration of poverty in the countryside, but it carries political risks. Thus, developing country governments face a tradeoff in pursuing two separate but linked definitions of food security: food security as a component of human security, where pro-poor policies may be the best answer, and food security as a component of national security, where urban interests seem the most pressing.
The Center for Climate and Security: Our thoughts on climate change
The UK-based public policy news service, The Information Daily, reached out to us to see if we would like to comment on the changing climate. You can read what we had to say here, or copied below. The points made in this article echo the first blog article we wrote for the Center: An Unprecedented Risk Needs an Unprecedented Response. (more…)