Food security in conflict and peacebuilding settings: beyond a humanitarian concern

The article provides a global overview of the food security and conflict situation discusses two-way relationship between violent security. On one hand, directly impacts systems, affecting people’s ability to produce, trade, access food. other, heightened insecurity can contribute emergence duration conflict. pathways leading from or are highly complex deeply contextual. draws major current settings illustrate these complexities, including unfolding armed in Ukraine, with implications for felt far beyond conflict-affected areas. concludes by arguing that there is an urgent need incorporating peace lens when conceptualising promote more holistic response across humanitarian, development, peacebuilding spheres rapidly increasing levels insecurity. In doing so, it fundamental consider agency within framing This factor largely missing dominant technocratic purely economic understanding