Achieving Food Security in the Face of Inequity, Climate Change, and Conflict (chapter in "The Difficult Task of Peace")
Publisher: Springer
Author(s): Olivia Sylvester
Date: 2019
Topics: Climate Change, Disasters, Gender, Land, Renewable Resources
Achieving sustainable agriculture and food security for all is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century. The United Nations 2018 State of the World’s Food Security Report speaks to this challenge. Specifically, this report describes that recently the number of undernourished people in the world has been on the rise, after a prolonged global decline. This increase in food insecurity is related to inequity, climate change, and conflict. In this chapter, I will examine this rise in food insecurity as well as review some interventions proposed to address it.