Crops, Shocks, and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa: Beyond Opportunity-Based Explanations of Local Political Violence

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Brief Overview

Economic shocks have particularly strong conflict-inducing effects in African regions with a long history of cash crop production. This is due to ethnic competition between sons of the soil and in-migrating ethnic strangers.

Author

• Yannick Immanuel Pengl, ETH Zurich