We are living in unprecedented times, where war, climate change, water scarcity and social inequality have brought hunger to the headlines, reversing the trend of recent years. Protracted and recurrent food crises that mostly affect people living in rural communities are becoming the new norm. We need to revert this trend.

Over 100 million people are in food crisis and it will only get worse if current trends are not reversed. Scientific evidence and policy analyses identify three main clusters of drivers of food crises:

• Socio-economic factors: demographic change, urbanization, growing inequality, unequal access to resources, unhealthy eating habits.
• Environmental factors: climate change, soil degradation, over-exploitation of natural resources, water scarcity.
• Peace and security: armed conflict, good governance, rule of law.

On 2-3 April 2019, on the occasion of the Launch of the Global Report on Food Crises 2019, join the international community and civil society in their quest to find ways to work together better.

The event will gather all actors committed to address the root causes of food crises and establish strategic and political solutions. It will allow participants and members of the Global Network against Food Crises to critically assess both longstanding and emerging challenges and opportunities and confirm their engagement to working better together to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges. Because solutions exist.

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