Launch of the 2025 Global Report on Food Crises

Alarming Global Food Insecurity

• ⚠️ The 2025 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) reveals a dire situation, with 295 million people across 53 countries facing high levels of acute food insecurity in 2024.
• 📈 This number has nearly tripled since 2016, marking the sixth consecutive year of increasing acute hunger and reflecting a world "dangerously off course."
• 📌 The report highlights that 22.6% of the analyzed population (more than one in five people) were in urgent need of assistance in 2024.

Key Drivers of Crisis

• 🔥 Conflict and insecurity remain the primary drivers, affecting 20 countries and fueling the world's worst food crises, including Sudan and Gaza.
• 📉 Economic shocks are a significant factor in 15 countries, exacerbated by weak global economic growth, inflation, and disrupted supply chains.
• 🌍 Climate extremes, such as record-breaking heat, El Niño, and devastating droughts/floods, were the main driver in 18 countries, pushing nearly 100 million people to the brink.

Severe Malnutrition and Displacement

• 👶 The GRFC introduces a definition for nutrition crisis, identifying 26 countries with high levels of acute malnutrition among children and pregnant/breastfeeding women.
• 💔 Almost 38 million children under five were acutely malnourished in 2024, with 10 million facing the most severe and life-threatening forms.
• 🗺️ Displacement is both a driver and outcome, with 96 million forcibly displaced people in 2024, primarily due to conflict, and experiencing higher food insecurity than host populations.

Urgent Funding Shortfalls

• 💸 Despite surging needs, humanitarian funding is plummeting, with a projected drop of up to 45% in 2025, forcing drastic cuts to life-saving food aid.
• 🛑 This underfunding threatens to increase the severity of food crises and roll back decades of progress, impacting operations in countries like Afghanistan, DRC, and Yemen.
• 🤝 Speakers emphasized that the system is underfunded and overstretched, making it a "collective failure" of the international community.

Call for Coordinated Action

• 🚀 There is an urgent need for coordinated global efforts and strengthened partnerships to address the root causes of food insecurity and build resilience.
• 🌱 Investments must focus on long-term, systemic approaches, supporting small-scale food producers, resilient rural economies, and sustainable food systems.
• ✅ Leaders called for multilateral cooperation, leveraging development financing, and bridging the humanitarian-development nexus to prevent future crises and ensure no one faces hunger alone.