Agriculture as a funding source of ISIS: A GIS and remote sensing analysis

Food Policy

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 14-25

  Jaafar, Hadi H ^a   Woertz, Eckart ^b,c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)   (Spain)

^c Kuwait Chair at SciencePo   (France)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Food security; Iraq; Remote sensing; Syria; Terrorism finance

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; FINANCE; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SECURITY; FOOD SUPPLY; GIS; INCOME; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; TAX SYSTEM; TERRA (SATELLITE); TERRORISM;

IRAQ; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84988000490     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2016.09.002     Document Type: Article

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