Across Asia, two forces — a war reshaping supply chains and a climate pattern rewriting harvests — are converging on the same vulnerable populations. Verisk Maplecroft's analysis, released this week, finds that more than half the nations most exposed to food insecurity are also those most likely to fracture under civil unrest. When fuel costs rise because of conflict in Iran and monsoons fail because of El Niño, the margin between stability and upheaval narrows to almost nothing. History has long known that hunger does not stay quiet.
Iran war and El Niño threaten Asian food security, risking civil unrest
Potential for civil unrest and political instability in vulnerable Asian countries due to food insecurity and inflation pressures.