'Exceptional and urgent. Papale offers the first sustained International Relations analysis of food as neither simply driver nor consequence of conflict, but integral to how wars are waged and won. Rigorously tracing food warfare from historical uses to our globalized, climate-affected present, this is essential reading across security and development studies.'

Caitriona Dowd, University College Dublin, Ireland

'Papale's new book offers an urgent and much-needed treatment of the significance of food in warfare. By demonstrating how food is fundamental to the dynamics and outcomes of conflict, it challenges International Relations scholarship to grapple with the sabotaging, capture, contamination, and destruction of food. Powerfully illustrated with rich historical and contemporary cases, the book offers a vital new framework for exploring and unpacking one of the key security challenges of our time. Timely, wide-ranging, and expertly crafted, Food Warfare deserves the widest possible readership.'

Lee Jarvis, Adelaide University, Australia