ABSTRACT
Introduction This topic of this chapter, like Chapter 5, cannot be analysed with reference to one scale. Conflict as experienced in most parts of the world today is caused by factors at the international, national and local levels. It tends to become most serious in places where resources are already stretched, which itself may be part of the causation, and inevitably its consequences mean a reduction in these already inadequate resources. Its impacts are also experienced, in different ways, at all levels and of course at the household level too. Its impact is also differentiated by gender, age, ethnicity and religion in most cases. Unfortunately, the implications of conflict for food security remain very serious: it is particularly implicated in the creation of famine circumstances. Analysis of entitlements, broadly conceived, around which this text is built, makes the examination of conflict unavoidable; conflict erodes, destroys, despoils and transforms the entitlement patterns of all those caught in its scope.
