Items tagged with STARVATION

One of the most pernicious causes of the backsliding on global hunger is the human infliction of deprivation, whether in the form of belligerents’ decisions about how to wage war or governments’ decisions about howto exercise control over populations. Some of these decisions are criminal, but accountability is rare.

Armed conflicts are one of the main drivers of hunger in the world. Moreover, since 2017, a resurgence of famines deliberately promoted as a war tactic to subjugate the enemy has been observed. This realization has increased academic and political interest in the problem.