Global Report on Food Crises 2025
Source: Indian Express
GS II: Issues relating to poverty and hunger
Overview
- News in Brief
- Key Facts on Global Report on Food Crises 2025
- Reason for Acute Food Security
Why in the News?
The Global Report on Food Crises 2025 is out.
News in Brief
- More than 295 million people across 53 countries and territories experienced acute levels of hunger in 2024, according to the Global Report on Food Crises 2025 published by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
- Acute food insecurity now affects 22.6 per cent of the assessed population, maintaining a grim trend of remaining above 20 per cent for five consecutive years.
Key Facts on Global Report on Food Crises 2025
About the Report
- The production of the GRFC 2025 is coordinated by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN).
- Release supported by Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC).
- It provides consensus-based analysis on acute food insecurity, acute malnutrition and population displacement in countries/territories identified as having food crises in 2024.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines hunger as food deprivation, or undernourishment, as the habitual consumption of too few calories to provide the minimum dietary energy an individual requires to live a healthy and productive life, given that person’s sex, age, stature, and physical activity level.
Key Facts in the report
- Out of the 65 countries/territories selected for the GRFC 2025, 53 had data meeting GRFC technical requirements.
- The report reveals that in 2024, over 295 million people across 53 countries and territories faced acute hunger.
- This is an increase of almost 14 million people compared to 2023, while the number of people facing catastrophic levels of hunger reached a record high.
- Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for the sixth consecutive year in 2024, pushing millions of people to the brink in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions.
- The list of the ten countries with the highest number of people facing acute food insecurity has remained unchanged since 2023.
- Each had over nine million people affected last year and collectively accounted for more than 196 million people, 66 per cent of the global total.
- Country with having worse level
- Nigeria, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone represented more than a quarter (28%) of the 295.3 million people facing crisis or worse levels of acute hunger.
- Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Yemen have consistently appeared on this list since 2016.
Reason for Acute Food Security
- Acute food insecurity is rarely driven by a single shock or hazard, but rather by the interaction between shocks and underlying poverty, structural weaknesses, and other vulnerability factors.
- Still, it is possible to identify a primary driver for each country/territory.
- Major reason
- Conflict remained the leading driver, impacting over 140 million people in areas such as the Gaza Strip, South Sudan, and others.
- Economic shocks, including inflation and currency devaluation, triggered hunger in 15 countries, affecting 59.4 million people—most notably in Afghanistan and Yemen.
- Extreme weather events impacted over 96 million people globally, with Southern Africa, Southern Asia, and the Horn of Africa among the worst-affected regions. These drivers continue to worsen food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly in already fragile areas.
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