Last year’s report showed that the failure to reduce world hunger is closely associated with the increase in conflict and violence in several parts of the world. In some countries, initial evidence showed climate-related events were also undermining food security and nutrition. This year’s report goes further to show that climate variability and extremes – even without conflict – are key drivers behind the recent rise in global hunger and one of the leading causes of severe food crises and their impact on people’s nutrition and health. Climate variability and exposure to more complex, frequent and intense climate extremes are threatening to erode and reverse gains in ending hunger and malnutrition. Furthermore, hunger is significantly worse in countries where agriculture systems are highly sensitive to rainfall, temperature and severe drought, and where the livelihood of a high proportion of the population depends on agriculture. The findings of this report reveal new challenges to ending hunger, food insecurity and all forms of malnutrition. There is an urgent need to accelerate and scale up actions that strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity of people and their livelihoods to climate variability and extremes. These and otherfindings are detailed in the 2018 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World -- Back cover.
Contents: : Part 1 : Food security and nutrition around the world in 2018 -- recent trends in hunger and food insecurity -- Progress towards improving nutrition -- Links between food insecurity and malnutrition -- 3. Recent trends in hunger and food insecurity / Part 2 : The impact of climate change on food security and nutrition / Why focus on the impact of climate variability and extremes on food security and nutrition? -- How do changing climate variability and extremes affect the immediate and underlying causes of food insecurity and malnutrition? -- What are the impacts of climate on the vulnerability, resource and control factors that shape food security and nutrition? -- Working towards coherence of policies, programmes and practices to address climate variability and extremes -- Overall conclusion.

xv, 181 p. ill., graphs, tables

Annexes (p. 115-162) : 1. Statistical tables and methodological notes to Part 1 -- 2. Methodological notes -- 3. Country group definitions and lists in Part 2 -- 4. Methodology Part 2. -- 5. Glossary.
Published in partnership with: International Fund for Agricultural Development, UNICEF, World Food Programme, and World Health Organization.

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