War, Climate And Displacement As The Common Denominator Of Hunger

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Today, displaced people spend an average of more than 17 years in camps or with host communities. The ensuing problems lie in the deep trauma of such long camp life and the lack of prospects refugees suffer from.

Quoted text follows | Source: 2017 - The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) Report

In early 2017, a famine was declared in South Sudan and alerts were issued for high risk of famine-like conditions in northeast Nigeria, in Somalia and in Yemen.

Conflict and civil war are common denominators in all these cases, as they are in most other countries facing food crises. Moreover, FAO currently classifies 19 countries with a protracted crisis. All 19 countries are also currently affected by conflict and violence, which is typically compounded by adverse climatic events, such as prolonged droughts, that severely affect food production and livelihoods. People living in countries affected by conflict are more likely to be food insecure and undernourished. [End Quote]

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As reflected in the  Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2), one of the greatest challenges the world faces is how to ensure that a growing global population - projected to rise to around 10 billion by 2050 – has enough food to meet their nutritional needs.

To feed another two billion people in 2050, food production will need to increase by 50 percent globally. Food security is a complex condition requiring a holistic approach to all forms of malnutrition, the productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, resilience of food production systems and the sustainable use of biodiversity and genetic resources.

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