Abstract: This paper explores aspects of food insecurity, such as price hikes and food shortages, and their relations with political unrest and violent conflicts. It focuses on analysing the literature that studies the binomial food insecurity-violent conflict to establish a standpoint on recent events and their impact on food security. The core argument of the article is that fostering international technical cooperation for development and focusing on food production could generate significant positive impacts towards food insecurity mitigation and, thus, its function as a conflict catalyst. The argument goes further in recognising that the Atlantic Basin countries could play a key role in countering such threats by sharing their expertise in cooperation for development and tropical agriculture. In addition, strategic and policy recommendations for addressing these challenges should be discussed.
Keywords: Food Insecurity; Violent Conflicts; Cooperation for Development.