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Security Council speaker urges urgent action to stop food being used as a weapon in conflict
Summary
A delegate told the United Nations Security Council that armed conflict is driving a global food crisis, citing recent famines and urging four steps: unimpeded humanitarian access, resilient food systems, scaled climate adaptation finance, and political solutions to prevent starvation tactics.
A delegate addressing the United Nations Security Council warned that armed conflict is driving a global food crisis and urged immediate action to protect food systems, bolster resilience and pursue political solutions to prevent starvation being used as a weapon.
The speaker, identified in the debate only as Speaker 1 and who said he had served as Nigeria’s minister of environment, told the council that “war destroys more than infrastructure” and described how fighting can obliterate farms, markets, transport routes and storage facilities that communities rely on.
He framed the conflict–food nexus as an existential threat to international peace and security, citing UN figures that “295,000,000 people faced acute hunger” last year — 14,000,000 more than the year before — and saying the number…
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