The question of water resources is one of the most challenging for countries in Central Asia. The strategy being adopted by Uzbekistan is to reduce water consumption in agriculture by implementing water-saving modern technologies.

At the InVitro laboratories, clonal rootstocks of various fruit trees are being grown and the scientists there claim that these rootstocks are resistant to climate change and disease. You can just get it and plant it in any soil. Soil samples from various regions of the country are also being analysed in the laborator.

Farmers are then able to purchase the rootstocks that will grow best on their land. The message coming oout of the conference in Samarkand seems clear, if we are to tackle this huge global problem, nations must work together to bring about its end.

By Galina Polonskaya. Share this article. However, IHL recognizes a need for humanitarian assistance in certain circumstances. It sets down that impartial humanitarian organizations may offer their services to carry out humanitarian activities, including when a party is not able or willing to meet these needs in practice.

A party to the conflict may not arbitrarily or unlawfully refuse its consent to such activities. Once consent has been given, the parties to the conflict as well as all other States concerned are required to allow and facilitate rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief, subject to their right of control.

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Food security in times of armed conflict: What you need to know. During armed conflict, the civilian population cannot survive for long without food and water. And yet, conflict drives food insecurity based both on how warring parties choose to wage their battles and indirectly through the disruption and degradation of food systems.

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In a remote area in Northern Pakistan , access to more resistant varieties of crops, veterinary services for livestock and paved roads to access markets resulted in communities rejecting extremist influences.

Today, COVID is adding to the strains on our food systems, disrupting markets and supply chains for small-scale farmers around the world, threatening peace and stability. We need these small-scale farmers now more than ever, but they also need support and investment so they can play their crucial role.

Food systems are complex. Small-scale farmers need inputs such as seeds and fertilizer to ensure production, and the training and support to overcome shocks such as unpredictable weather, economic downturns, or health crises. It is also critical to ensure that the markets where their products are bought and sold keep running, and to support the crucial role of women in food systems by addressing gender inequalities which impede their income-generating activities.

But there are also a host of social dimensions. The success of small-scale farmers also depends on giving a voice to their representatives — organizations of farmers, indigenous peoples, women, water users and other community-level institutions. The Food Systems Summit will be an opportunity to lay the foundations for the sustainable food systems of the future —and the peace and prosperity of future generations depend upon it.

Speaking at COP26 in Glasgow, Dr. Agnes Kalibata warned that millions could suffer food insecurity if climate negotiations did not address links with food and agriculture.

Hear how farmers across Africa are trying to adapt to a changing climate with Special Envoy Agnes Kalibata. Commitments to support a hub for indigenous knowledge would provide a resource to help countries identify ways to conserve agricultural biodiversity and develop sustainable food production practices.

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From vicious circle to virtuous cycle With the U. Small farms are key Small-scale farming is key to food systems that contribute to peaceful and healthy communities. The pandemic has also laid bare the greatest rise of inequality since records began.

The estimated number of people living in extreme poverty is projected to reach million by the end of , an increase of million since the pandemic started.

The most marginalized people including women, displaced people and informal workers have been hit hardest. An additional 47 million more women worldwide are expected to fall into extreme poverty in Meanwhile, the rich continued to get richer.

Among countries and regions where the food crisis has worsened because of the pandemic, some are particularly concerning: Yemen, the Central African Republic, Afghanistan, Venezuela, the West African Sahel, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria. Hunger has also intensified in emerging hunger hotspots like Brazil, India and South Africa, which also saw some of the sharpest rises in COVID infections.

To end the hunger crisis, governments must first end conflict and allow aid agencies like Oxfam to reach those most in need, to help save lives now.

To end hunger permanently, they must also rebuild a fairer and more sustainable global economy as they recover from the pandemic.

They must tackle these key drivers of hunger and eradicate the underlying inequalities that widen the gap between rich and poor people. They must focus their resources on providing social protection rather than on arms that perpetuate conflict and hunger. We work together with more than partners across 68 countries.

Breadcrumb Home. Learn more United against coronavirus. Donate now. More recently, the Arab Spring uprisings of took place during a period of historically high food prices in North Africa and the Middle East.

The history of warfare is filled with examples of military tactics deliberately used with the intent of starving enemy armies or civilian populations. Hundreds of thousands did starve to death during the German siege of Leningrad St. Petersburg , Soviet Union, between and A civil war broke out in South Sudan in The fighting led to thousand deaths and drove four million from their homes and food sources.

Conflict and poor harvests contributed to a hunger crisis in Compounding the situation was an economic crisis that incapacitated markets and sent the price of food beyond what most people could afford.

Armed groups terrorized the population by raiding cattle, stealing food, setting fire to markets, and preventing farmers from cultivating land. Although the rival factions negotiated a tenuous ceasefire in September , UN agencies have reported that well over half the population were facing acute food insecurity as of early Syria The brutal Syrian conflict, which began in , has displaced more than 12 million people from their homes, with more than six million displaced within Syria as of July By , Syrians fleeing the fighting contributed to the largest global refugee crisis since the end of World War II.

Both sides of the conflict, the Syrian government and its rebel opponents, have used starvation as a military tactic. Repeatedly, Syrian government forces besieged areas under rebel control, placing a blockade on incoming supplies while bombing markets, hospitals, and other civilian targets.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the human rights group Amnesty International were among those who accused the Syrian regime of carrying out war crimes. A coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates UAE intervened, ostensibly to restore the deposed government.

The Saudi-Emirati coalition effectively shut down the Red Sea port at Hodeida, the main entry point for food imports, on which the population depends, and for humanitarian supplies. The audio, illustrations, photos, and videos are credited beneath the media asset, except for promotional images, which generally link to another page that contains the media credit.

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Among the million people suffering from chronic malnutrition in , 60 percent lived in areas affected by armed conflict. Wars are inherently violent and harmful, but destruction of resources can sometimes create more catastrophic harm than bombs and bullets.

Conflict can cause food shortages and the severe disruption of economic activities, threatening the means of survival of entire populations.

Additionally, wars commonly trigger the displacement of huge numbers of people, cutting them off from their food supplies and livelihoods. Refugees are often vulnerable to acute food insecurity as well as disease.

Alternately, if people remain in their homes, surrounding armies can trap people inside a village, city, or neighborhood and deprive them of food, medicine, and other vital resources until they surrender.

Many conflict zones desperately need humanitarian aid, but increasingly, one or both parties in a conflict may block relief operations from reaching starving populations or even carry out attacks against humanitarian organizations. Armed conflict can certainly bring about dangerous conditions of food insecurity, but some scholars argue the reverse is also true: Food insecurity can precipitate violent political conflict.

Most often, it is only one among several causal factors, but a sudden change in the availability or price of basic foodstuffs can trigger an explosion of social unrest.

A famous example is the French Revolution of , which was fueled in large part by poor grain harvests and economic pressures that led to sharp increases in the price of bread. More recently, the Arab Spring uprisings of took place during a period of historically high food prices in North Africa and the Middle East.

The history of warfare is filled with examples of military tactics deliberately used with the intent of starving enemy armies or civilian populations.

Hundreds of thousands did starve to death during the German siege of Leningrad St. Petersburg , Soviet Union, between and A civil war broke out in South Sudan in The fighting led to thousand deaths and drove four million from their homes and food sources.

Conflict and poor harvests contributed to a hunger crisis in Compounding the situation was an economic crisis that incapacitated markets and sent the price of food beyond what most people could afford.

Armed groups terrorized the population by raiding cattle, stealing food, setting fire to markets, and preventing farmers from cultivating land. Although the rival factions negotiated a tenuous ceasefire in September , UN agencies have reported that well over half the population were facing acute food insecurity as of early Syria The brutal Syrian conflict, which began in , has displaced more than 12 million people from their homes, with more than six million displaced within Syria as of July By , Syrians fleeing the fighting contributed to the largest global refugee crisis since the end of World War II.

Both sides of the conflict, the Syrian government and its rebel opponents, have used starvation as a military tactic. Repeatedly, Syrian government forces besieged areas under rebel control, placing a blockade on incoming supplies while bombing markets, hospitals, and other civilian targets.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the human rights group Amnesty International were among those who accused the Syrian regime of carrying out war crimes.

A coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates UAE intervened, ostensibly to restore the deposed government. The Saudi-Emirati coalition effectively shut down the Red Sea port at Hodeida, the main entry point for food imports, on which the population depends, and for humanitarian supplies.

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They took away the goats and all we had. We slept on the mud, with nothing to cover the children with. Our teams help prevent hunger and save lives in the most challenging and complex areas impacted by conflict around the world. Donate Now. Together, we can break the vicious cycle of hunger and conflict.

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