Food, War & Diplomacy

Salt as Diplomatic Gift The Japanese Tea Ceremony (Chadō) as Diplomatic Tool The Medieval Feast: Hierarchy Made Edible The Roman Convivium: Dining as Political Instrument Xenia: The Sacred Obligation of the Greek Table The Hardtack Tradition The Mongol Military Diet The Roman Legionary's Diet The Great Leap Forward Famine — China, 1959–1961 The Holodomor — Ukraine, 1932–1933 The African Diaspora Food Traditions The Cajun (Acadian) Food Tradition The Jewish Diaspora Food Tradition The Bread Crisis of 1788–1789 The Flour War (Guerre des Farines), 1775 The Women's March on Versailles (5–6 October 1789) The ABCD Companies The American Grain Weapon The Ukraine War and the Weaponization of Grain Crop Yields in a Warming World Extreme Weather and Food-Price Shocks The Pollinator Crisis The Water Crisis: Aquifers and the Mining of the Past The Water Crisis: Glaciers and Asia's Rivers Amartya Sen and the Entitlement Theory of Famine Ethiopia, 1983–1985 — Famine as Weapon Ireland, 1845–1852 — Exports Amid Starvation The Bengal Famine of 1943 — The Foundational Case The Cartaz System and the Portuguese Pepper Monopoly The Cinnamon Wars — Ceylon Under the Portuguese and the Dutch Vasco da Gama and the Opening of the Sea Route (1497–1502) Cacao Chile Peppers Coffee (From the Ethiopian Highlands to the New World) Maize (Corn) and the Pellagra Epidemics Rice (African Knowledge and the Carolina Economy) Sugar The Columbian Exchange (Crosby's Framework) The Destruction of Indigenous Food Systems The Potato The Tomato Wheat The Caloric Mathematics of a Siege Gandhi's Salt March (India) The Gabelle (France) The Roman Salt Trade The Venetian Salt Monopoly Medieval Siege Foodways: Provisioning, Substitution, and the Descent to Cannibalism The Siege of Antioch (1097–1098) The Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE) The Siege of Paris (1870–1871) Cacao and the Modern Chocolate System The Banana Republic The Coffee Plantation System The Tea Plantation System The Bengal Famine — India, 1943 The Great Famine (An Gorta Mór) — Ireland, 1845–1852 The Late Victorian Famines — Colonial India, 1876–1902 Korean Food Resistance Under Japanese Occupation Palestinian Food Culture and Political Identity The Norwegian Resistance Kitchen Forecasting the Crisis: The NECSI Food-Price Threshold (Lagi et al., 2011) Mohamed Bouazizi and the Tunisian Trigger The 2010–2011 Global Food Price Spike The Syrian Drought and the Climate-Conflict Debate The Indus Waters Treaty The Middle East Water-Food-Instability Nexus The Nile, the GERD, and Egyptian Food Security The Ogallala Aquifer The Virtual Water Trade Nixon in China: The 1972 Banquet The 1972 US–Soviet Grain Deal ("The Great Grain Robbery") The Common Agricultural Policy: Food as Peace Infrastructure The Marshall Plan as Food Diplomacy Alternative Proteins Food-Waste Reduction Regenerative Agriculture The Food-Sovereignty Movement Agricultural Dumping and the Manufacture of Dependency Structural Adjustment and the Dismantling of Food Sovereignty The Food Aid Industrial Complex The Paradox of Plenty — Hunger in a World of Surplus The Banda Massacre — The Banda Genocide (1621) The Clove Monopoly, the Hongi Voyages, and Amboina (Ambon) The VOC — The World's First Multinational Corporation (1602) Hardtack in the Napoleonic Wars The Canning Origin Story British Sugar and the Politics of Abolition The Food Legacy of Sugar and Slavery The Haitian Revolution The Triangular Trade Food Aid as Soft Power The Birth of Gastrodiplomacy The State Dinner as Diplomatic Theater The Bengal Rice Crisis of 1943 The English Bread Riots and the Corn Laws The Global Food Riots of 2007–2008 The Roman Annona: Bread and Circuses Indigenous Seed Saving Traditions The Svalbard Global Seed Vault The Vavilov Institute Scientists Norman Borlaug and the Wheat Revolution The Second Green Revolution Debate The Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) The Vavilov Institute: The Scientists Who Starved Guarding the Seeds The Warsaw Ghetto (1940–1943) The Yemen Blockade and Famine (2015–present) Brazil's Fome Zero — The Largest Hunger-Reduction Program in History The Right to Food as International Law Run Island — The Nutmeg Island Traded for Manhattan (1667) Tea, Opium, and the Triangular Trade — The First Opium War (1839–1842) The English East India Company and the Retreat from Spice (1600) Food as a Military Strategy: Sherman's March The Civil War Hardtack Culture: Skillygalee and the Soldier's Table The Union and Confederate Food Systems Modern Food Trade Politics The British Corn Laws (1815–1846) Fusion as Survival Soul Food as Cultural Resistance The Return to Indigenous Foods Movement Food Sovereignty vs. Food Security The Tied-Aid Debate The World Food Programme The British Food System The German Food Crisis and the Turnip Winter Freeze-Drying for Military Use K-Rations and C-Rations The Development of Spam Wartime Rationing: Britain, the United States, and the Politics of the Plate The MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) The Natick Labs Food Science Program