The World Agreed to Stop Using Food as a Weapon. It Hasn’t.
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Date: 2026
Topics: Renewable Resources, Weapons, Waste, and Pollution
Food has increasingly become a deliberate tool of war. Whether in besieged farming communities in Sudan or in the destruction of grain siloes in Ukraine, it is targeted, strategic, and rarely punished. In conflicts around the world, food weaponization has triggered humanitarian devastation, disrupted global food provisions, and directly threatened states’ national security.