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Feeding Resilience: The Conflict, Climate, and Food Nexus of the War in Iran
By Erin Sikorsky and Noah Fritzhand
In 2023, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) launched the Feeding Resilience project to examine the intersection of food, climate, and national security. One of the precipitating shocks informing the project was the Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent global food crisis that stemmed not only from the conflict but also from climate change-driven hazards and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Food prices reached an all-time high in the summer of 2022, and Russia wasted no time in exploiting the fragile global food system for its political ends. As we wrote in 2022, these conditions impacted countries outside Eastern Europe, including Somalia, where consecutive droughts compounded with price shocks, Ecuador and Panama, where food shortages sparked protests.
Now, with the war in Iran, we have a second tragic example of how conflict and climate shocks intersect with one another to negatively affect food security worldwide. The conflict poses risks to food security at the local, regional, and global levels – risks amplified by intensifying extreme weather and climate hazards. Further compounding the crisis is the global humanitarian support system’s current lack of preparedness, with agencies like the World Food Program woefully underfunded. This post takes each of these challenges in turn.
(more…)Feeding Resilience: Recap of CCS and Kansas State Event on Risk and Readiness in Food Security
On October 7, 2025, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS) in partnership with Kansas State University (K-State) hosted a day-long conference as part of CCS’ Feeding Resilience program, a multi-year effort focused on the nexus of climate change, food and agriculture, and global security and stability. Feeding Resilience is deepening its analysis and broadening policy engagement to Europe and multilateral institutions, having previously developed The Feeding Resilience Plan, a set of actionable policy recommendations for the US government, endorsed by 30+ retired generals, admirals, ambassadors, intelligence officials, and former heads of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
Feeding Resilience: Ethiopia
Ethiopia sits at the intersection of climate change, food security, and conflict risks that will shape the country’s internal stability, influence on East African security, and geopolitical role for years to come.
Today, the country is in danger of falling into a new round of war or instability, which would exacerbate humanitarian suffering, deepen hunger, destabilize the region, and ripple throughout global trade and geopolitical competition. These challenges will only grow more difficult to address as climate change impacts on agriculture intensify. But Ethiopia’s record of progress speaks to its possibilities as a peaceful, stabilizing, and agriculturally thriving state. Integrated near- and long-term investments by regional and international powers in conflict mediation, food security, and climate resilience can help deliver this future, for the benefit of Ethiopia and global security.
Today, the Center for Climate and Security (CCS), in partnership with Woodwell Climate Research Center, published a new case study exploring intersecting security, food, and climate issues in Ethiopia as part of its Feeding Resilience program.
USAID Provides Critical Benefits to US National Security
The Trump Administration’s effort to try to shut down USAID and pause all foreign aid directly harms US national security, including by interrupting critical investments into resilience, adaptation, conflict prevention, and peacebuilding. In 2021, 79 senior national security leaders, including 8 retired 4-star generals and admirals, a former Director of National Intelligence, and a former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, signed the Challenge Accepted report, which argued that USAID investments in resilience and adaptation were critical to preventing instability and conflict and maintaining the US competitive edge with China.
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