Hi, I have seen in a book that tribes and populations that live in poor land that can only support livestock have a tendency to have a honor based society with high level of agression, but do not have any academic reference for that, and also that tribes that share ressources ie water to farm have conflict deescalation mechanisms, is there any comparison out there between the types of tribes produced by conditions where farming is the majority vs when pastoralism is the majority?
This is one of the oldest questions in anthropology, going back to Herodotus, and even the Old Testament story of Cain and Abel. Look at the work of Stuart Legg, The Barbarians of Asia (1995, Barnes and Noble Books), to start.
This ResearchGate member - Mark Moritz - may be able to help. It looks from this paper that he has looked into this topic:
Moritz, M. (2008). A critical examination of honor cultures and herding societies in Africa. African Studies Review, 51(2), 99-117.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236830492
Your university - University of the Highlands and Islands
Inverness, United Kingdom - sounds a marvellous place to study from! And particularly the School of Adventure Studies.
There seems to be no distinct pattern of honor-shame morality based on farming/pastoralism in the native cultures of the Americas, as there is in Africa or Europe.
Mohawk tribes of New England practiced agriculture (but not animal husbandry), and were part of the Iroquois Confederacy, which was a model of democracy that's quite modern in structure. Despite their political alliances, they were fiercely aggressive, practiced ritual cannibalism (only some subtribes) and much of their mythology is full of symbolic fratricide and brutality. Water and natural resources are abundant in this part of North America, and the Mohawk lived geographically close by tribes that were more agrarian or did practice animal husbandry which were just as aggressive, or that were instead pacifists:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/986696.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1921807?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
You can find more examples of the wide spectrum of cultural norms paired with traditional foodways in other areas of the Americas as well:
https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/region/americas/north-american-native-cultures/
The sources you cited are most likely referring to observations of African tribes - at least, that is my best guess from papers and articles I have read in the past. Hunter-gatherer tribes in Africa, such as the Hadza, sometimes have a matriarchal Egalitarian honor based society, while nearby pastoral tribes like the Maasai are patriarchal and have laws of possession, payment, material wealth, etc. However your reference may be outdated or antiquated. Please consider the following re-analysis of what was once called the "Warrior Complex" as applied to so-called "primitive peoples" by white European researchers:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3773764.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
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