Food Security: Rewind and Reconnoiter: Elevating Hunger as a National Security Priority with Kelly McFarland

May 30, 2024 | Kelly McFarland and Freddie Mallinson, War on the Rocks
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In 2021, Kelly McFarland co-authored “To Tackle Instability and Conflict, It’s Time to Elevate Hunger as a National Security Priority,” in which he argued that, “conflict and food are intricately related” and that, “[t]he Biden administration and future U.S. administrations will have to deal with food security and hunger as a national security issue whether they want to or not.” Three years on, with questions of food security central to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, War on the Rocks asked him to look back on his article and recommendations.