Food Security: Recent Studies Support Dangerously Hungry’s Link Between Food Insecurity and Conflict

Aug 16, 2023 | World Food Program USA
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In April of this year, World Food Program USA launched a new report titled Dangerously Hungry: The Link Between Food Insecurity and Conflict. The report provides evidence showing that conflict not only produces food insecurity, but that food insecurity also produces conflict. After identifying and reviewing 60 peer-reviewed academic journal articles published since 2017, Dangerously Hungry linked 12 specific drivers of food insecurity (e.g., crop yields, food prices) to eight distinct types of instability and conflict ranging from protests and riots to civil war.