Food Security, trade specialization, and violence in Colombia (1916-2016) Urrego Mesa, John Alexander Food security Agricultural trade Armed conflict in Colombia Socioeconomic and historical approaches can contribute to the understanding of the relationship between food security, agricultural trade, and armed conflicts in developing countries. While the market-based perspective advocates that trade is a useful way to maintain food security nationally, other works suggest that trade liberalization and agro-export specialization have threatened food security since the 1980s, especially the self-sufficiency capacity. In Colombia, this agrarian change to agro-export specialization and food dependence has also been linked to the surge of the second wave of violence (c. 1980). Is there a dichotomy between trade and self-sufficiency during the Colombian twentieth century? Did armed conflict contribute to the specialization in agro-exports during the Second Globalization? This work contributes to the dichotomic debate between food security and agricultural trade with a more nuanced view along throughout the twentieth century and confirms a long-term relationship going from violence and international prices towards tropical specialization 2025-02-02T05:58:34Z 2025-02-02T05:58:34Z 2021-10 journal article Urrego-Mesa, A. (2021). Food Security, Trade Specialization, and Violence in Colombia (1916–2016). Investigaciones De Historia Económica / Economic History Research. https://doi.org/10.33231/j.ihe.2021.08.001 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/101755 10.33231/j.ihe.2021.08.001 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional