Social Sustainability
Protracted Crisis
A context where conflict, disasters and institutional failure combine to cause persistent acute food insecurity over years or decades.
Definition
A protracted crisis is a context in which a significant proportion of the population is acutely vulnerable to hunger over an extended period, as a result of combined causes — recurrent natural disasters, conflict, insecurity, weak governance and livelihood collapse. The FAO's formal criteria combine duration of crisis, share of humanitarian assistance, and prevalence of undernourishment.
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