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Briefing paper

Food Wars: Conflict, Hunger, and Globalization, 2023

16/10/2024

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English, Spanish

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Most wars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries have been “food wars”: food and hunger were used as weapons, food and food-related water and energy infrastructure were damaged intentionally or incidentally, and food insecurity persisted as a legacy of conflict destructiveness. Frequently, food insecurity, in turn, is a trigger or underlying cause of […]

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Briefing paper

Fixing Our Food: Debunking 10 myths about the global food system and what drives hunger

08/09/2022

4 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Our unequal global food system is unsustainable for people and planet. We urgently need to rethink how the world feeds its people. The food crisis we are facing is not new. Extreme inequality and poverty, rights abuses, conflict, climate change and inflation – exacerbated by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine – mean that […]

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Briefing note

Later Will Be Too Late: How extreme levels of hunger have not been averted despite alarms

13/10/2020

3 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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In July 2020 Oxfam warned that by the end of this year more people could die from hunger related to the COVID-19 pandemic than from the disease itself. But the response of the international community to global food insecurity has been dangerously inadequate. The threat of 'COVID famines' and widespread extreme hunger is setting off […]

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Research report

USAID’s AVANSE Project in Haiti: An assessment of its conformity with aid effectiveness principles

13/03/2019

1 documents

35 pages long

Languages: English

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In 2013, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched Appui à la Valorisation du Potentiel Agricole du Nord, pour la Sécurité Économique et Environnementale—Aid to Realize the Agricultural Potential of the North, for Economic and Environmental Security, or AVANSE—in northern Haiti. This $87 million project, also known as Feed the Future North, runs through […]

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Food Wars: Conflict, Hunger, and Globalization, 2023

Fixing Our Food: Debunking 10 myths about the global food system and what drives hunger

Later Will Be Too Late: How extreme levels of hunger have not been averted despite alarms

USAID’s AVANSE Project in Haiti: An assessment of its conformity with aid effectiveness principles