About
A policy desk, not a pamphlet
waronfood.org explains food systems, the difference between food security and food sovereignty, and the policy and conflict instruments that interrupt supply. It is a Situation Monitor spoke. It is not a campaign site, a government website, or a substitute for FAO, WTO, or national statistical series.
What the name does and does not claim
People already use “war on food” for several different things: wartime damage to harvests and ports, export bans during price spikes, industrial consolidation, or contested public-health rules. This desk treats those as separate objects. It does not collapse them into one hidden plot, and it will not invent a casualty count or a market-share figure to make the title look like a finding.
Where it sits in the wider desk
The live conflict map at armedconflicts.org is the hub of the Situation Monitor citation cluster. That hub is frozen: this repo will not restyle it, rewrite it, or treat it as a canvas. When a food note touches an active war, a fuel chokepoint, or political violence, we add an inbound link to the hub or to a named sister desk.
Adjacent spokes we cite when the subject calls for them: OilRoutes, US Foreign Policy, Foreign Diplomacy, Global Market Updates, US Market Updates, and Political Violence Map.
Methodology
- Prefer official vocabularies (FAO food-security pillars; the Nyéléni Declaration’s own wording for food sovereignty; WTO and Codex process names) over commentary.
- Separate definition from advocacy. A page can name a contested instrument without taking a brief for or against it.
- Label uncertainty in plain type: unpublished shares, disputed death or hunger totals, and any figure we cannot tie to a public official source.
- Never invent hunger rates, calorie-mile statistics, fertilizer-price percentages, processor market shares, or “how much of the world’s food is controlled by X.”
What this site is not
It is not a news wire, a nutrition clinic, or a commodity tip sheet. If you need tanker positions, use OilRoutes. If you need live conflict geography, use the hub. If you need markets, use the market desks linked above.
Machine-readable companions for agents live at /llm-info, /llms.txt, /ai.txt, and /agents.txt.