Food in Zones of Conflict

The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to military personnel operating in conflict zones is another important issue. These themes unite this collection, the chapters of which span different geographic areas. This volume will appeal to scholars in a number of different disciplines, including anthropology, nutrition, political science, development studies and international relations, as well as practitioners working in the private and public sectors, who are currently concerned with food-related issues in the field.

The availability of food is an especially significant issue in zones of conflict because conflict nearly always impinges on the production and the distribution of food, and causes increased competition for food, land and resources Controlling the production of and access to food can also be used as a weapon by protagonists in conflict. The logistics of supply of food to military personnel operating in conflict zones is another important issue. These themes unite this collection, the chapters of which span different geographic areas. This volume will appeal to scholars in a number of different disciplines, including anthropology, nutrition, political science, development studies and international relations, as well as practitioners working in the private and public sectors, who are currently concerned with food-related issues in the field.

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Foreword
Hugo Slim

Preface
List of Contributors

Introduction
Paul Collinson and Helen Macbeth

Chapter 1. ‘Try to imagine, we didn’t even have salt to cook with.’: Food and War in Sierra Leone
Susan Shepler

Chapter 2. Landmines, Cluster Bombs and Food Insecurity in Africa
Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi and Akinyinka Akinyoade

Chapter 3. Special Nutritional Needs in Refugee Camps: A Cross-disciplinary Approach
Jeya Henry and Helen Macbeth

Chapter 4. Patterns of Household Food Consumption in Conflict Affected Households in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
Rebecca Kent

Chapter 5. Engaging Religion in the Quest for Sustainable Food Security in Zones of Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lucy Kimaro

Chapter 6. Livestock Production in Zones of Conflict in the Northern Border of Mexico
Daria Deraga

Chapter 7. The Logic of War and Wartime Meals
Nives Rittig Beljak and Bruno Beljak

Chapter 8. Nutrition, Food Rationing and Home Production in U.K. in the Second World War
Helen Lightowler and Helen Macbeth

Chapter 9. Beyond the Ration: Alternatives to the Ration for British Soldiers on the Western Front 1914-1918
Rachel Duffett

Chapter 10. Sustaining and Comforting the Troops in the Pacific War
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka

Chapter 11. Enemy Cuisine: Claiming Agency, Seeking Humanity and Renegotiating Identity through Consumption
K. Felicia Campbell

Chapter 12. The Memory of Food Problems at the end of the First World War in Subsequent Propaganda Posters in Germany
Tania Rusca

Chapter 13. Echoes of Catastrophe: Famine, Conflict and Reconciliation in the Irish Borderlands
Paul Collinson

Chapter 14. ‘Land to the Tiller’: Hunger and the End of Monarchy in Ethiopia
Benjamin Talton

Chapter 15. Prospects for Conflict to Spread through Bilateral Land Arrangements for Food Security
Michael J. Strauss

Chapter 16. Food, Conflict and Human Rights: Accounting for Structural Violence
Ellen Messer

Index