Nutrition & Health Study Group Event
Nutrition and hunger with conflict in humanitarian emergencies
Date: 3rd April 2019
Time: 13.30- 17.00
Location: Trinity College Dublin, Geography Seminar Room B (In the foyer of the Museum Building)
Summary: The World Bank estimates that around 2 billion people live in countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence, and classifies 36 countries or territories as being in fragile situations now. Crises take many shapes and forms, such as deteriorating governance, prolonged political crisis, post-conflict transition and fragile reform processes, often in a context of disasters of natural resource disasters and climate change with global hunger increased in these situations.
According to FSIN, in 2017, 124 million people faced crisis-level food insecurity, with conflict the key driver in 60 per cent of cases of acute food insecurity. The Nutrition and Health study group of the DSAI brings you this session on Nutrition and Hunger with conflict in emergencies gives a unique opportunity to analyse; displacement; humanitarian needs and the legal framework supporting this.
In addition nutrition programmes that is, infant and young child feeding in emergencies (IYCFE) and community management of acute malnutrition (CMAM) are reviewed. It explores both the direct and indirect ways in which conflict drives hunger, its impact on longer-term food security resilience, and the considerations humanitarian actors, donors and governments should take into account in prevention and response. Finally it explores how disability is managed in an emergency context and the impact of disability on nutrition, the policy framework surrounding this and the risks of exclusion in emergencies.
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