The cornerstone for peace is food, but armed conflicts wipe out livelihoods and agri-food systems

The time is now. Words on paper are insufficient. To make progress, we need global leaders to turn away from armed conflict.

Destroyed vehicles in Bucha, Ukraine, in 2022. The increase in world hunger also reflects disruptions in the fertilizer trade after the outbreak of war in Eastern Europe. Conflicts disrupt critical farming and food-systems supply chains extending suffering beyond impacted borders, write Rattan Lal and Manuel Otero.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY RATTAN LAL, MANUEL OTERO

August 14, 2024

Grim statistics are indicative of the magnitude of the global problem: some 820 million people suffer from severe malnutrition. Another two billion suffer from hunger. Some 700 million people live in extreme poverty, on less than US$2.15 a day, while nearly half of the w...

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