Sentence examples for insecurity situations from inspiring English sources

Insecurity situations sometimes spill into urban centres too, from the rural conflicts over pastures and water (Fratkin and Roth 2005).

Child-reported food insecurity situations could serve as a screen for nutrition problems in children.

Although the three-month time frame was much better than asking about food security experiences in the last 12 months, this study did not collect data on frequency or duration of food insecurity situations.

It also moves from a binary concept of "famine" or "no famine" to a graduated approach that captures a range of food insecurity situations. 2 One potential use of the famine scale is in conjunction with early warning systems, to help guide the level of humanitarian response and to provide a greater opportunity to recognise a potential famine.

The Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) said the crisis represented the most serious food insecurity situation in the world today, in terms of scale and severity.

The researcher had initially anticipated using a ready-made household sampling frame from the chief's office to select the respondents, but the area chiefs were reluctant to give named lists of their villages' inhabitants, probably because of the prevailing insecurity situation at the time of the study.

With elections imminent, the government appears to be racing against time to prove it has the capacity to deal with the intractable insecurity situation that has bedevilled the north-east, in order to get Nigerians to vote it back to power.

Yet, these results point to and confirm the worsening food insecurity situation in Lower Egypt than Upper Egypt.

On the other hand, however, our findings do suggest that an HIV diagnosis may have led to a worsening of the food insecurity situation in affected households.

This study aims to address this gap by investigating the food insecurity situation in urban Ethiopia -a country experiencing sustained high food prices, high rates of urban poverty, and a growing urban population.

Children in South Sudan remain in a dire and worsening malnutrition emergency because of the deteriorating food insecurity situation, the destruction of livelihoods as a result of the conflict and inaccessibility to many affected areas by humanitarian actors, as well as escalating food prices.