Resilience for food security in refugee-hosting communities
(2014) Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security — ISBN: [978-0-89629-678-7], p. 45 - 52, published
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- Every year thousands of people flee their country or region of origin due to civil unrest. In 2012, the population of refugees throughout the world was estimated at almost 10 million, and the number of internally dispersed persons (IDPs) was nearly double that, at 18 million (UNHCR 2012). The majority of forced migrants were hosted in developing countries, with about 70 percent of the world’s refugees having been in exile for more than five years. While the total number of refugees did not grow significantly between 2007 and 2012 (from 9.68 million to 9.88 million), the refugee population in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) increased by 20 percent (from 2.27 million to 2.75 million), driven largely by drought-related emergencies and armed conflicts in the Horn of Africa and West Africa. A recent surge of forced migration outside of SSA has also occurred, driven by flows of more than 2.4 million refugees from Syria into Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, or Turkey (Zetter et al. 2014)
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Mabiso, A., Maystadt, J.-F., Vandercasteelen, J., & Hirvonen, K. (2014). Resilience for food security in refugee-hosting communities. In Fan, Shenggen; Pandya-Lorch,Rajul; Yosef, Sivan (ed.), Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security (p. p. 45 - 52). International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/231874