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COMCEC Agriculture Outlook 2019
4. Climate Change as theMain Driver of Food Insecurity in OICMember
States
It appears that food insecuritywill not disappear in near future. The belowworld map (Figure
39) depicts the number of people in IPC/CH Phase 3 or above in 2019 and most are living
either in OIC and/or neighboring countries. Among those Iraq, Libya, Palestine, Somalia,
Sudan, Syria and Yemen from Arab Group; Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan from Asian
Group and Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda from African
group OIC countries are highlighted. Of course the neighboring and regional OIC countries are
also prone to be affected with high vulnerability at their borders.
Figure 39 Estimates of food insecure population in need of urgent assistance in 2019
(millions)17
FAO recommends the “new way of working” to “move from delivering aid to ending need”
which emerged from the World Humanitarian Summit and the Agenda for Humanity’s call
providing a new framework for thinking about innovative approaches to address food crises
more sustainably in line with Sustainable Development Goals 2. To serve for this goal the
negative effects of the main drivers of acute food insecurity -conflicts and insecurity, climate
shocks, economic instabilities and disease outbreaks- or from multiple effects driven mainly by
Climate Events among these must be minimized. It is a fact that the cumulative effects of
extreme climatic events is undermining all dimensions of food security – food availability,
access, utilization and stability- and acts as a main trigger of its drivers. It is also known that
the frequency, intensity or duration of these events have been changing substantial ly and these
events threaten to erode and reverse gains made in ending hunger and malnutrition in the
fight against maintaining food security in OIC countries.
17 FAO, 2019 Global Report on Food Crises, p.166.
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