On Friday, @WFP was awarded the #NobelPeacePrize for work to address hunger. Conflict & hunger are closely linked, and I& #39;ve had the opportunity to see the work of WFP and other food sec actors on the ground in several contexts. A https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đź§µ" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">with some resources I find useful on the topic:
Announcement itself is a good starting point https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/Announcements/Nobel-Peace-Prize-for-2020-is-awarded-to-the-World-Food-Programme-WFP,">https://www.nobelpeaceprize.org/Announcem... mentioning "efforts to combat hunger [...] contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and [...] efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war." Let& #39;s take those in turn:
On contributing to conditions for peace by addressing hunger, evidence is more mixed, in part because it& #39;s difficult to measure directly how hunger contributes to conflict. Some great studies, and discussion on complexity of relationship @WorldDevJournal https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/world-development/special-issue/10008D90ZVF">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/w...
On the use of hunger as a weapon of war, the tireless work of @WorldPeaceFdtn and @GRC_HumanRights in their Accountability for Mass Starvation project https://starvationaccountability.org/ ">https://starvationaccountability.org/">... is really invaluable. Great pieces on legal dimension of the issue also here - https://academic.oup.com/jicj/issue/17/4 ">https://academic.oup.com/jicj/issu...
Lastly on resources, while gaps remain, we have more & better data than before, which can help to predict, respond & support recovery. Check out @Concern& #39;s Global Hunger Index https://www.globalhungerindex.org/results.html ">https://www.globalhungerindex.org/results.h... for nat& #39;l and @WFP& #39;s Hunger Map Live https://hungermap.wfp.org/ ">https://hungermap.wfp.org/">... for sub-nat& #39;l data
There are many more aspects of conflict & hunger beginning to receive (but need more) attention. These are esp important as @irishmissionun prepares to take up a UN Security Council seat, bringing with us a global reputation on aid & nutrition and direct historical exp of famine.
Lastly, while win shines spotlight on food, important also to remember challenges facing wider humanitarian system in conflict: criminalising hum space, under-funding, & lack of support for local actors (almost always first & last responders) all major barriers to tackling hunger
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