Giving Compass' Take:

• Global Citizen reports on how conflict around the world is creating food and nutrition crises, putting the lives of more than half a million children at risk. In many cases, it is deliberate.

• What can aid organizations do to help feed vulnerable people in war-torn regions? How can international leaders put pressure on countries to enact cease fires and open supply chains?

• Here's more about hunger and malnutrition in the world’s youngest country.

Hunger is back on the rise for the first time in two decades. And the primary cause for the food shortages is conflict.

Conflict affects food stability, disrupts supply chains, and forces people away from their land and livestock. But hunger is also being used as a deliberate weapon in areas impacted by conflict.

Save the Children has now warned that more than half a million children in the world’s conflict zones could die before the end of 2018, as a result of extreme hunger.

“Hunger is not inevitable,” said Carolyn Miles, president and CEO of Save the Children. “Time after time we are seeing starvation used as a weapon of war when deliveries of food are obstructed by the warring parties in places like Yemen, Syria, and South Sudan.”

“We must stop this dangerous trend,” Miles urged. “All warring parties must abide by their obligations under international law to allow humanitarian access. We also need to see an increase in funding from the international community to save more children’s lives.”

Read the full article about starvation as weapon of war by Imogen Calderwood at Global Citizen.