Анотация: There are strong links between conflict, food insecurity and peace. Yet the precise underlying causes and channels that determine these links are often not well understood. This study finds that conflicts tend to have strongly adverse effects on hunger, nutrition and overall sustainable development. Notably, a majority of the worldТs hungry live in contexts where there is no peace. Conflicts reduce food availability, disrupt access to food, and undermine non-formal as well as established social protection systems. Most conflict events strike hardest in rural areas, with sharply negative consequences for agricultural production, rural livelihoods, and survival in general. Conflicts and violence cause vulnerable people and at-risk communities to lose access to the range of resources necessary for food and agriculture production. At the same time, people may resort to violence when their human security - including food security - is threatened. Conflict may arise due to a loss of assets (including access to resources), threats to livelihoods, and/or other forms of economic and political marginalization. Food insecurity may be only one cause of conflict, and may become a channel through which wider socio-economic and political grievances are expressed. This study disentangles the complex nexus between conflict, food security and peace in a wide range of contexts. The findings provide the basis for laying out an ambitious new approach to addressing the root causes of conflict, with sustaining peace as a unifying framework, and encompassing activities aimed at preventing the outbreak, escalation, continuation and recurrence of conflict. (fao.org)

Забележки: ISSN на серията: 2521-7259