Food Security: Africa's Unresolved Conflicts Drive Acute Food Insecurity

Dec 2, 2025
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
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Acute food insecurity is when a person's inability to consume adequate food puts their life or livelihood in immediate danger. This equates to a risk category of 3 or higher (crisis, emergency, and catastrophe) on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) scale of 1 to 5.