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<p>The Sudano-Sahelian region is mired in an escalating crisis where armed conflict and food security are intertwined. This article analyzes the evolving impact of conflict on food security across this domain from 1994–2024. Utilizing the four pillars of food security (availability, access, utilization, stability), it examines how the shifting nature of conflict—from localized disputes to transnational jihadist insurgencies, banditry, and resource-based violence—has systematically undermined food systems. The analysis details how conflict disrupts agricultural production, destroys assets, impedes market access, triggers mass displacement, degrades essential health and sanitation services, and fosters chronic instability. It also highlights the disproportionate suffering of rural communities, pastoralists, farmers, women, children, and the elderly. The opinion piece argues that armed conflict is a primary driver of the region's profound food insecurity, impacting both caloric sufficiency and nutritional balance. The piece concludes by emphasizing the urgent need for integrated, context-specific responses that address peace and food security needs concurrently.</p>

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Science for Africa’s future food security: the entangled crisis of escalating conflict and eroding food security in the Sudano-Sahelian Region: 1994–2024

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    2025年9月17日

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  • Shahriar Kibriya,
  • Naureen Fatema

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The Sudano-Sahelian region is mired in an escalating crisis where armed conflict and food security are intertwined. This article analyzes the evolving impact of conflict on food security across this domain from 1994–2024. Utilizing the four pillars of food security (availability, access, utilization, stability), it examines how the shifting nature of conflict—from localized disputes to transnational jihadist insurgencies, banditry, and resource-based violence—has systematically undermined food systems. The analysis details how conflict disrupts agricultural production, destroys assets, impedes market access, triggers mass displacement, degrades essential health and sanitation services, and fosters chronic instability. It also highlights the disproportionate suffering of rural communities, pastoralists, farmers, women, children, and the elderly. The opinion piece argues that armed conflict is a primary driver of the region's profound food insecurity, impacting both caloric sufficiency and nutritional balance. The piece concludes by emphasizing the urgent need for integrated, context-specific responses that address peace and food security needs concurrently.