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Global food insecurity

A failure of natural or human systems?

When a region is facing imminent food shortage, we often blame the impacts of climate change such as drought or flood. But famine can also be the result of political conflicts, economic inequality and the breakdown of how people interact with changing natural systems.

Mali is considered by the UN to have an ‘acute’ food crisis
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Visit the website hungermap.wfp. org and look at the default world map showing world hunger, which is shown on the map as insufficient food consumption. The key in the lower right indicates that orange and red represent areas where insufficient food consumption is widespread. The circle on the left gives the number of people in the world facing food shortage in billions from a global total population of just over 8 billion.

There are food security ‘alert circles’ on the map coloured according to the ‘alerts’ key in the upper right, indicating whether the main issue is:

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