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To tackle food insecurity, look beyond agriculture to peacebuilding and preventing war

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    • Farmers and consumers are increasingly struggling to cope with climate change’s severe droughts and sudden floods.
    • Farmers and consumers are increasingly struggling to cope with climate change’s severe droughts and sudden floods. PHOTO: AFP

    Neil Behrmann

    Published Wed, Sep 27, 2023 · 12:45 PM

    THOSE who fret about energy shortages and inflation should also focus on the security of food supplies.

    Global food security has become a massive problem. It is interlinked with the lengthy Ukraine war and conflicts in Somalia, Syria and elsewhere. This is over and above climate change, which brings droughts, fires and floods.

    More than ever, urgent action is needed to forge peace, bolster the global agricultural economy and secure lower-priced nutritional produce.

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