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The United States Risks Undermining Its Pacific Power By Withdrawing Disaster Relief and Food Security Support
By Francisco Bencosme
On 5 March, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs held a hearing titled “Examining the Office of Insular Affairs’ Role in Fostering Prosperity in the Pacific Territories and Addressing External Threats to Peace and Security.” This article is based on Francisco Bencosme’s written testimony focused on transnational crises like climate change undermining Pacific peace and security. Bencosme served as the China Policy Lead at USAID until January 2025.
The United States is at risk of ceding its influence in the Pacific Islands and repeating the mistakes it failed to learn after World War II. Our partners in the Pacific are calling it our “yo-yo” policy towards the region. The United States spent the last six years saying it would intensify our engagement in a crucial national security region, and we did so, only to now pull back US presence on the ground and self-sabotage American influence. Gutting foreign assistance limits our ability to influence and address challenges in the Pacific, especially climate change, disaster response, and food security, key areas of strategic competition.
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CCS Advances Climate and Food Security at the 2025 Munich Security Conference
By Erin Sikorsky and Siena Cicarelli
Last week, Center for Climate and Security (CCS) team members traveled to the 2025 Munich Security Conference (MSC) for a series of events on climate security, food security, and other converging risks. As MSC participants grappled with a potential transatlantic rift over Ukraine, the future of democracy, and the international liberal order, non-traditional “problems without passports” including climate change, food insecurity, and AI stubbornly insisted on a seat at the security table – with dozens of side events and mainstage conversations dedicated to tackling these topics. Participants recognized the challenges of the current moment, including the US retreat from international engagement on these topics, and discussed a variety of paths to continue progress, including stronger regional partnerships and new approaches to framing these issues for skeptical audiences. To that end, CCS hosted two official MSC side events dedicated to climate security challenges.
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Feeding Resilience: The National Security Imperative of USAID’s Food Security Programs
As of today, the Trump Administration has paused two essential US global food security initiatives, Feed the Future and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET). Created in reaction to the 2007-8 global food crisis and resulting instability, Feed the Future is a marquee US government food security program and tool for implementing the bipartisan Global Food Security Act, working in 20 countries to build a more resilient food system and supporting agricultural innovation at 17 US universities. Operating since 1985, FEWS NET provides rigorous analysis and forecasting of acute food insecurity to inform US and other humanitarian responses in 30 countries.
(more…)Roots of Resilience: Building Peace in an Era of Food and Climate Shocks
By Siena Cicarelli, Luca Cinciripini, Lukas Eichelter, Philip Novakovic-Wilke, and Lena von Zabern