Human Security Centre Human Rights and International Security Research

Over the past year, food prices have been slowly on the rise. Supply chain disruption from the Covid crisis is now being compounded by the impact of the conflict in Ukraine on the global agriculture trade, with key markets now facing substantial jumps in costs.

This pandemic has been quite a danger to human security. Beyond the obvious death toll and long-term health consequences, the pandemic itself threatens the very structure of most people's day-to-day lives.