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Lessons to learn from the current food crisis -Vikas Rawal

-Deccan Herald

One must not make the mistake of thinking that high food prices are good for farmers

The world has been facing a food crisis of a magnitude that has not been seen for many decades. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned that “the number of people facing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent life-saving food assistance and livelihood support continues to grow at an alarming rate”.

As per the previous State of Food Security and Nutrition (SOFI) Report, about 237 crore people in the world faced moderate to severe food insecurity in 2019. Of these, about 62 crore - the largest in any single country - were in India alone. It is expected that the numbers on food insecurity and hunger would be significantly higher for 2020 when these are published later this year.

International Organisations such as the FAO and the World Food Programme (WFP) have been arguing for a long time that conflicts and wars are the primary causes of the increase in food insecurity in recent years. They have also held the Ukraine-Russia war as being primarily responsible for the recent increases in food insecurity.

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