Food security in Bangladesh is among major concerns as the 2018 monsoon season continues,根据联合国的说法humanitarian aid organizations. This region, prone to flooding and food shortage, experiences an additional stress this year as it copes with hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees who have crossed the border from Myanmar’s Rakhine province into Bangladesh since 2017.Ninety-one percent of the refugee population hererelies only on food from humanitarian organizations, and rates of food insecurity and malnutrition meet or exceed emergency levels.
若开邦省位于孟加拉湾北部的缅甸，与孟加拉国南端接壤。近年来，该国经历了上升的海洋，森林砍伐和降雨量的增加，大约60-millimeter increase in monthly average rainfallfrom 2012 to 2015.
The monsoon season can last for seven to eight months,七月和八月达到顶峰. The heavy rains traditionally devastate farmland and flood a significant percentage of inhabited land. In 2017,季风flooding covered该国近三分之二的人影响了大约800万孟加拉国。2017年潮湿季节的气候冲击，就像闪水液一样，在全国各地损坏了数百平方英里的农作物，对农民造成了巨大损失。
正在为罗兴亚难民组织人道主义援助努力的跨部门协调集团（ISCG）的报告，估计孟加拉国的难民数量达到近90万2018年4月。根据最近的报告，有60万难民居住在考克斯镇（Cox）巴扎尔镇东南部的库特帕隆 - 巴卢卡利营地。其他成千上万的难民的其他较小的营地遍布整个考克斯的巴扎尔地区。
联合国人权Zeid Ra'ad Ra'ad Ra'ad al-Hussein高级专员说，难民人口的膨胀是缅甸不愿接受罗兴亚穆斯林公民的结果in a speech to the Human Rights Council然而，2017年9月的冲突可以追溯到几十年：缅甸政府在1960年代初开始剥夺罗兴亚人权利，包括公民身份的权利，甚至excluded them from the 2014 census.
Since August 2017, intensifying violence by government military forces has driven Rohingya Muslims north to Bangladesh in what has been labeled since fall 2017 as “the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis”联合国人道主义事务协调办公室（OCHA）。据赫森专员说，若开邦正在发生的事情“seems like a textbook exampleof ethnic cleansing.”
OCHA reports that “the concentration of refugeesin Cox’s Bazar is now amongst the densest in the world” due to the rapid influx, which has doubled the region’s population and stressed the local infrastructure. Refugees are living incramped and unsteady shelters不适合大雨和风。联合国食品和农业组织（FAO）表示，燃料需求的突然增加导致了大量森林砍伐heightened risk of landslides. The Strategic Executive Group, a joint advisory group of officials from the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has estimated that超过200,000个罗兴亚难民生活在这个雨季将淹没或崩溃的地区。
戴维德·罗西（Davide Rossi）领导了粮农组织和联合国世界粮食计划署（WFP）的协调反应。罗西说a quick response在季风季节，对于挽救生命至关重要，包括强化的饼干和烹饪餐，尤其是洪水和山体滑坡的风险很高。
自2017年秋季以来，人道主义组织和政府已建立合作，以提供急诊食品和食品订书钉商店，从策略性地在整个营地中找到它们，以便于在紧急天气情况下便利。即使没有重大的气候冲击，在孟加拉国实现粮食安全也是挑战排名最少的食物安全among its south Asian neighbors late in 2017.
在最近的评估中thirty-three percent of refugees成年人的食物摄入和食物质量措施和急性营养不良的速度的得分很差：库特帕隆营地24％，临时难民定居点近20％。
Additionally, areport from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)发现估计有69,000名五岁以下的罗兴亚儿童经历了严重的急性营养不良，这可能会产生持久的健康影响，包括短期内对疾病的脆弱性增加。
FAO Emergency Coordinator Peter Agnew reports, “seeing food prices going up每天的工资从6美元下降到2美元，以及激烈的柴火和食物竞争。”他提倡对接待社区的支持，一个人口本身容易受到粮食不安全和气候冲击的影响，这至关重要，他说：“东道国社区成员告诉我们，这种情况正在对家人造成巨大的压力。”
Coordinated response by the humanitarian sector is ongoing in Cox’s Bazar. According to Rossi,further resilience building和基础设施改进，例如农业生计建设，农民培训，家庭园艺促销和农场到市场模式的业务支持对于该地区的长期稳定至关重要。
