Source material and useful links for Food Security briefings

15/10/2021: The Director-General of the World Trade Organization takes the opportunity of World Food Day to call for deeper international cooperation in improving how food markets function. She warns that we are nowhere close to being on track to achieving the Sustainable Developent Goal relating to food.

Source: Project Syndicate

Unprecedented hunger to follow in wake of the climate crisis

14/10/2021: In advance of World Food Day the World Food Programme is calling for urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks. When coupled with conflict, the climate crisis exacerbates existing food insecurity.

Source: World Food Programme

Pandemic, climate change and conflict accelerate global hunger

14/10/2021: The latest Global Hunger Index confirms fears that the pandemic, climate change and armed conflict have fueled a sharp increase in the number of people going hungry around the world. Fifty countries are in an alarming or serious situation, with hunger affecting a significant part of their populations.

Source: DW

Climate change is exacerbating hunger & conflict

13/10/2021: Researchers from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute discuss the intricate ways in which hunger, violent conflict and climate change are connected and how to tackle them together. The main drivers of current food insecurity are violent conflict and extreme weather events.

Source: Inter Press Service

Greenpeace intercepts fish oil tanker with West African catch

7/10/2021: Activists from the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in the English Channel have intercepted a tanker transporting fish oil taken from West Africa. Greenpeace claims that the amount of fish caught in the region for the fishmeal and fish oil industry is threatening the food security and livelihoods of millions.

Source: Greenpeace

Data shows there’s more land for farming in Africa

8/10/2021: Open source satellite data has enabled analysts to improve the inventory of land use across Africa. It has found that land under cultivation has increased 5% since 2000 but that only 10% of total arable land is irrigated.

Source: The East African

Yemen has averted famine — for now

6/10/2021: At the start of this year, roughly 50,000 people in Yemen were experiencing famine, the fifth and most severe phase of food insecurity. The UN resident coordinator for Yemen has reported that the situation has eased, although sustained funding will be necessary to prevent any recurrence.

Source: Devex

Billions pledged, but UN food summit fails to heal divisions

28/9/2021: The UN Food Systems Summit has encouraged countries to implement their declared “national pathways” to food security, supported by a new coordination hub led by the three Rome-based UN food agencies and the International Fund for Agricultural Development. But fundamental disagreements about global food strategies remain.

Source: The New Humanitarian

Why food systems change must be linked to climate action

30/9/21: Neither food systems transformation, nor climate and biodiversity action agendas can succeed if work to achieve their goals is not linked, experts are stressing in the aftermath of the recent UN Food Systems Summit. The food system is responsible for about 70% of the biodiversity loss on land and between 29% and 33% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Source: Devex

Food Systems Summit urges swift action by 2030

24/9/2021: The troubled UN Food Systems Summit has been held on the sidelines of the General Assembly. The US government has committed $5 billion over 5 years for USAID’S Feed the Future program. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation also announced a $922 million, five-year commitment.

Source: Devex

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