TY - JOUR
T1 - The humanitarian-development-peace nexus for global food security
T2 - Responding to the climate crisis, conflict, and supply chain disruptions
AU - Barakat, Sultan
AU - Cochrane, Logan
AU - Vasekha, Iana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2023/11
Y1 - 2023/11
N2 - Global food insecurity has worsened since 2015, driven by conflict, the COVID19 pandemic, and the Ukraine war. This explorative article argues that a new ‘whole-of-UN’ approach is needed, oriented around the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus, which has been operationalized at project and program levels, but not the global. Using the impacts of the war in Ukraine on food security in the Middle East and North Africa as a case study, we demonstrate how interconnected global crises could benefit from employing the HDP nexus as an interconnected global response. Drawing on detailed, country-specific commodity import data, we analyse vulnerabilities based on import dependencies. Broadening the argument, we show how conflict mitigation through to post-conflict recovery activities are no longer sufficient at the national or regional scale to address the challenges posed. Combining the pillars of food security, with the nexus approach, and a focus on the UN agencies response to the Crisis, we explore what policies and processes could enable a shift toward institutionalizing the nexus as a new operational standard.
AB - Global food insecurity has worsened since 2015, driven by conflict, the COVID19 pandemic, and the Ukraine war. This explorative article argues that a new ‘whole-of-UN’ approach is needed, oriented around the humanitarian-development-peace (HDP) nexus, which has been operationalized at project and program levels, but not the global. Using the impacts of the war in Ukraine on food security in the Middle East and North Africa as a case study, we demonstrate how interconnected global crises could benefit from employing the HDP nexus as an interconnected global response. Drawing on detailed, country-specific commodity import data, we analyse vulnerabilities based on import dependencies. Broadening the argument, we show how conflict mitigation through to post-conflict recovery activities are no longer sufficient at the national or regional scale to address the challenges posed. Combining the pillars of food security, with the nexus approach, and a focus on the UN agencies response to the Crisis, we explore what policies and processes could enable a shift toward institutionalizing the nexus as a new operational standard.
KW - Development
KW - Food security
KW - Humanitarian
KW - Middle east and north africa
KW - Nexus
KW - Peace
KW - Ukraine
KW - United nations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85176252724&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104106
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104106
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85176252724
SN - 2212-4209
VL - 98
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
M1 - 104106
ER -