Monitoring Food Security in Countries with Conflict Situations
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and World Food Programme
Date: 2018
Topics: Assessment, Humanitarian Assistance, Land, Livelihoods, Renewable Resources
Countries: Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Mali, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Yemen
This is the fourth report that FAO and WFP have jointly provided to the UNSC since June 2016. It presents the number of people in urgent need of food, livelihood and nutrition assistance in 22 countries or territories that are currently experiencing or have recently experienced conflict or are hosting a significant spillover of refugees as a result of conflict or political crisis in neighbouring territories.
It is published two months after the UNSC passed a resolution that acknowledges the link between hunger and conflict, marking a recognition by global leaders that hunger will never end until peace and livelihoods are restored in many parts of the world. It is published three months after the Global Report on Food Crises 2018 showed that in 2017, conflict and insecurity were the key drivers of acute food insecurity in 18 countries, the majority of them in Africa (11) followed by the Middle East.
This report aims to:
1. Show how the situations in 22 countries – including areas and territories – affected by conflict have evolved since the last report to the UNSC in January 2018
2. Provide the numbers of acutely food insecure people by conflict-affected country
3. Show the worst affected areas in each country
4. Examine the main drivers of food insecurity and how these are related to conflict
The overall aim is to provide UNSC members with a concise, up-to-date overview that allows them to formulate what short- and long-term actions need to be taken to break the vicious cycle between armed conflict and food insecurity.