GNV News 2025 Year 5 Month 21 Day

On 2025 Year 5 Month 16 Day, the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), announced by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) composed of United Nations specialized agencies and others, stated that in the 53 countries and territories surveyed in 2024, more than 2 hundred million 9,500 ten-thousand people are facing severe food crises. Compared with 2023, this is an increase of 1,370 ten-thousand people. According to GRFC, conflict, economic volatility, and climate change are causing food shortages and malnutrition, and these figures have increased for 6 consecutive years. However, while food insecurity is worsening, support to address it has substantially decreased. For example, funding to the World Food Programme (WFP) in 2025 is projected to be 40% lower than the previous year.

Looking more closely at the report, under the global indicator of food insecurity, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the number of people in the most severe phase, “catastrophic hunger,” increased to more than 2 times the 2023 level, reaching 190 ten-thousand people. This is the highest number since GRFC began compiling statistics in 2016. Specifically, people are in a state of “catastrophic hunger” in the Gaza Strip, Palestine (1,106,900 people), Sudan (755,300 people), and elsewhere.

In addition, a nutrition crisis was identified in 26 of the 53 countries and territories, and in those areas 3,770 ten-thousand children are suffering from acute malnutrition. In particular, in Sudan, the Gaza Strip of Palestine, Mali, and Yemen, child malnutrition has reached severe levels. In these countries and territories, such crisis conditions are mainly caused by the presence of conflict. For example, in Sudan, due to the impact of the armed conflict continuing since 2023 Year 4 Month, the food crisis has worsened nationwide, and in particular, famine has occurred in some displacement camps.

News about the report from the World Food Programme (WFP) → “WFP: Facing a record level of food crisis”

Learn more about food insecurity → “Global food shortages: what goes unreported”

In 2014, a WFP truck delivering food to a displacement camp in Sudan and its escort vehicles (Photo: UNAMID / Flickr [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0])