Food Crises

Resources related to global food crises.

The Increasing Imperative for Resilient Food Systems in Times of Crisis: What Can Donors Do?

Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (2022) | On the heels of the pandemic, our collective attention is now focused on the skyrocketing food prices and the conflict in Ukraine. While emergency measures are necessary to address short-term consequences, these current crises further cement the need for long-term investments into resilient food systems, in order to combat and avoid such crises in the future. Presentations by Keynote Speaker Jennifer Clapp and panelists Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Satu Santala, Martin Bwalya, Leonard Mizzi, and Jim Woodhill. Moderated by Henry Bonsu.

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Global Report on Food Crises – 2021

Global Network against Food Crises (2021) | GRFC 2021 highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55 countries/territories, driven by persistent conflict, pre-existing and COVID-19-related economic shocks, and weather extremes. The number identified in the 2021 edition is the highest in the report’s five-year existence.

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SOFI 2021: Transforming food systems for food security, improved nutrition and affordable healthy diets for all

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (2021) | In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario further complicated by the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It also includes new estimates of the cost and affordability of healthy diets, which provide an important link between the food security and nutrition indicators and the analysis […]

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Overcoming Ecological Crises: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Human Rights

Global Network for the Right to Food and Nutrition (2020) | Our current economic and political system feeds on the exploitation of humans and nature to generate profits, which manifests most clearly in the perpetuation of inequalities, global warming and the rapid loss of biodiversity. This report examines the illusion of separation between human societies and the rest of nature. Authors in this issue invite us to join the dots and explore a new generation of human rights and environmental law that reimagines interrelatedness and how we can collectively shift ̧ the paradigm from separation to connection through an ongoing […]

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2020 Global Report on Food Crisis

Food Security Information Network (2020) | The fourth annual GRFC is the result of a joint, consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity situations around the world by 16 partner organizations. The Report finds that, at 135 million, the number of people in Crisis or worse in 2019 was the highest in the past four years. This increase also reflected the inclusion of additional countries and areas within some countries. When comparing the 50 countries that were in both the 2019 and the 2020 reports, the population in Crisis or worse rose from 112 to 123 million. This reflected worsening acute […]

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