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Conflict, weather drive acute hunger

Apr 24th, 2020 • by Sara Gustafson

An estimated 73 million people in Africa faced acute levels of hunger and food insecurity in 2019, according to the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises, released this week. The continent accounted for 54 percent of the global total of severely food-insecure people. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread around the world, developing countries in the region will likely see even further disruptions to food access. These disruptions will compound existing food crises and potentially create new ones.

More progress needed on Malabo

Feb 19th, 2020 • by Tsitsi Makombe and Julie Kurtz

This post originally appeared on IFPRI.org .

 

By: Tsitsi Makombe and Julie Kurtz

 

Conflict to Worsen Food Security in Central West Africa

Jan 16th, 2020 • by Sara Gustafson

Since mid-2018, conflict in the Liptako-Gourma region, the border connecting western Niger, northern and eastern Burkina Faso, and central and northeastern Mali, has displaced almost 700,000 people and caused massive disruptions to market functioning and livelihoods, according to a recent alert from FEWS Net . These disruptions are expected to continue to drive urgent humanitarian needs through the rest of 2020.