Food Security for Humanity: Challenges & Opportunities

Abstract

Purpose - Drawing on both classic and modern work, I propose to find out the major humanitarian food crisis that has occurred due to human made causes such as civil wars, ethnic conflicts in different part of the regions in the world. Major sufferers are children and infants. Due to failure in experiment in social changes and development mass hysteria has developed among masses which are heavily burdened by state but does not profit from countries boom give rise to conflicts in which major proportion of the population generally end up as refugees in the countries with almost little or no excess to food and drinking water.Design/Methodology/approach - A case studies of ten different countries facing serious refugee crisis was developed. Secondary data will be used to show its economic implications especially food insecurity as a result it requires serious discussion. Findings - The economic repercussions of these civil wars and ethnic conflicts are huge, both for the country where these conflicts are undergoing and for the country who takes these refugees economic costs are huge. Prolonged episodes of this social unrest, strikes, civil wars often compromise economic activities and political implications takes time to become fully visible.Research limitation and implication - The accuracy of the findings depend upon the authenticity of the source and information used in analyzing secondary data.Practical implications - The result of this finding will help economists, research workers, sociologists understand the grave problems that exist under our very nose and is creating a humanity crisis and also importance and impact of these refugee crisis in changing and deciding world politics today.Originality Value - This study is of its first kind which will establish the economic impact and its correlation with political ramifications of these refugee crises which put a big question mark on United Nations millennium goals of providing food security world over.