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Food Security in Protracted Crises: What can be done?

Policy brief

Year of publication 2008

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Policy brief

Category Policy brief

Synopsis (short abstract) When emergency situations continue for years or decades achieving food security becomes an overwhelming challenge. In addition to the loss of human lives due to conflict, these situations are characterised by high and steadily growing levels of hunger. This policy brief focuses on protracted crises from a food security perspective and aims at sharing insights, based on evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia and the Sudan, on what might be done to improve food security.

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