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CORRECTION article

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Social Movements, Institutions and Governance
Volume 9 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1554469

Commentary: From acute food insecurity to famine: how the 2023/2024 war on Gaza has dramatically set back sustainable development goal 2 to end hunger

Provisionally accepted
Rotem Zelingher Rotem Zelingher 1*Jesus Crespo Cuaresma Jesus Crespo Cuaresma 1,2,3
  • 1 Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria
  • 2 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
  • 3 Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  1. Commentary: From acute food insecurity to famine: how the 2023/2024 war on Gaza has dramatically set back sustainable development goal 2 to end hunger

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    Abstract This comment aims to address critical inaccuracies in the data presented in Figure 5 of the original article, which reports incorrect food price data during the 2023/2024 Gaza war. Since the authors of the paper do not provide sources for most of the items, the data were cross-checked with reliable information from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) and the Food Price Monitoring and Analysis (FPMA) dataset. We found significant discrepancies in the reported values which invalidate some of the conclusions of the article. This comment aims to rectify these issues by presenting the corrected food prices based on reliable sources. Data Availability Statement The datasets generated for this study can be found in: 1. PCBS: Microdata Catalog, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/PCBS-Metadata-en-v5.2/index.php/catalog/?page=1&ps=15 2. FPMA: Food Price monitoring and analysis (FPMA) tool. Monitoring and analysis of prices, Retail (NIS/kg) https://fpma.fao.org/giews/fpmat4/#/dashboard/home 3. Israel Bureau of Statistics, Database of Prices and Price Indices https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/Statistics/Pages/Generators/Database-of-Prices-and-Price-Indices.aspx 4. Bank of Israel, Representative Exchange Rate US dollar/New Israeli shekel https://edge.boi.gov.il/?locale=en

    Keywords: Food security, Disruption of food flow, Food prices, Regional war, Gaza

    Received: 02 Jan 2025; Accepted: 07 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Zelingher and Crespo Cuaresma. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Rotem Zelingher, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria

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