Conflict-Based Food Insecurity
“If you don’t have food security, you’re not going to have any other security.” David Beasley, Executive Director, World Food Programme The latest United Nations report on the state of global food security and nutrition is pretty discouraging. After years of progress fighting the causes of hunger and malnutrition, we now have an increase in the number of hungry people: over 820 million in 2017, up from 804 million in 2016, and highest in almost a decade. It has risen the la