Yet the rumours of such a message were enough to heighten existing insecurities and spark a flash migration.
Rather than shape the way we communicate, technology reflects our existing insecurities and behavior.
The underlying vulnerability of poor households also requires actions to address the causes and reduce the risks of food and nutrition insecurity by increasing the resilience of existing livelihoods.
The weight of existing evidence supports the view that trade liberalization increases economic insecurity [ 102].
Yet the government stubbornly maintains a policy of preserving about 90% of existing rice land in perpetuity.That might make sense if Vietnam still struggled with crushing food insecurity, as it did in the early 1980s.
It is this insecurity – existing, pervasive, worsening, global vulnerability of our infrastructure, communications and rights – that has been the greatest deception in this battle to date.
However, even in households with food insecurity due to poverty and poor access to healthcare, families can optimise the use of the existing resources to promote health.
Given the massing of NATO forces in the south, the answer appears to be attack the urban, civilian population, creating widespread insecurity in an effort to reinforce the existing resentment of foreign troops and doubts about President Hamid Karzai's government.
Inserting a food insecurity module into existing official household surveys would cost as little as £50,000 a year, it estimates.
However, existing approaches to combat food insecurity shock have generally focused on reducing vulnerability via increasing productivity of domesticated foods.
