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Building resilience to conflict through food security policies and programs: An overview

One and a half billion people still live in fragile, conflict affected areas. People in these countries are about twice as likely to be malnourished and to die during infancy as people in other developing countries.2 This outcome is often a direct consequence of conflict: conflict reduces food avail...

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Main Authors: Breisinger, Clemens, Ecker, Olivier, Maystadt, Jean-François, Trinh Tan, Jean-François, Al-Riffai, Perrihan, Bouzar, Khalida, Sma, Abdelkarim, Abdelgadir, Mohamed
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2014
Subjects:
nutrition security
shock
food security
conflicts
food prices
resilience
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151141
Summary:One and a half billion people still live in fragile, conflict affected areas. People in these countries are about twice as likely to be malnourished and to die during infancy as people in other developing countries.2 This outcome is often a direct consequence of conflict: conflict reduces food availability by destroying agricultural assets and infrastructure.

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