74 million

people face acute food insecurity or worse in areas marred with armed conflict, notes the UN Security Council (UNSC) while adopting a historic resolution that recognises a link between conflict and food insecurity. Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare constitutes a war crime, it says

489 million,

or 60 per cent of the 815 million chronically hungry in the world, live in a conflict zone and suffer human-made, preventable hunger, said the UN World Food Programme (WFP) while lauding the UNSC resolution

122 million

of the 155 million stunted children in the world live in countries hit by conflict, as per WFP's latest report World Food Assistance 2018 released days before the resolution

50 per cent

of the annual food assistance costs could be reduced by putting an end to violent conflict, it notes