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Explain the non-traditional security threats in the context of food and environmental crises.

  • UPSC 2025
  • 10 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Non-traditional security threats are dangers to survival and wellbeing that are not military in origin, cross borders freely and cannot be defeated by force. The UNDP Human Development Report 1994 listed food and environmental security among the seven components of human security. Their security character lies less in scarcity itself than in the mechanisms that…

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  • Food crises as a security mechanism
  • Environmental crises as a threat multiplier
  • The food–environment nexus
  • Conclusion
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