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The annual Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) provides a consensus-based overview of the world’s food crises. It focuses on crises where the local capacities to respond are insufficient, prompting a request for the urgent mobilization of the international community, as well as countries/territories where there is ample evidence that the magnitude and severity of the food crisis exceed the local resources and capacities needed to respond effectively.

About the Global Report on Food Crises

The Global Report on Food Crises, an annual report published by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) and the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) brings together data and analysis from various early warning systems to provide a reference for coordinating humanitarian and development responses to ongoing and anticipated crises. The FSIN is a global initiative founded by FAO, WFP and IFPRI. FSIN’s work spans the effort of 16 global and regional partners committed to improving availability and quality of food security and nutrition analysis for better decision-making. It facilitates the GNAFC in obtaining better understanding of the extent and causes of food crises. The GNAFC is an alliance of humanitarian and development actors united by the commitment to tackle the root causes of food crises and promote sustainable solutions through shared analysis and knowledge, strengthened coordination in evidence-based responses and collective efforts across the humanitarian, development and peace nexus.

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The Global Report on Food Crises 2026: KEY FINDINGS

The 2025 global assessment reveals a persistent state of acute food insecurity, with 22.9 percent of the analyzed population—approximately 266 million people—facing critical consumption deficits. This stability in absolute numbers is largely attributable to reduced geographic data coverage rather than improved humanitarian conditions. Since 2020, the prevalence of food crises has consistently exceeded 20 percent, nearly doubling since 2016.

Severity levels have intensified, with the population in Catastrophe (IPC/CH Phase 5) increasing nine-fold over the last decade to 1.4 million. Protracted crises in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Sudan, and Yemen remain the most acute. The demographic impact is profound, as 35.5 million children suffer from acute malnutrition, alongside 9.2 million pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Conflict remains the primary driver for over half of the affected population, followed by climatological extremes. Alarmingly, international funding has regressed to 2016–2017 levels, creating a dangerous divergence between escalating needs and declining resources. This financial shortfall threatens the integrity of food security data systems and evidence-based interventions. Early 2026 projections suggest that escalating Middle Eastern conflicts may further disrupt global agrifood markets, maintaining critical severity levels for the foreseeable future.

Apr 24th, 2026

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2026 reveals that acute food insecurity and malnutrition remain at alarmingly high and deeply entrenched levels, with crises increasingly concentrated in a core group of countries. In its tenth edition, the report shows that acute hunger has doubled over the past decade, with two famines declared last year for the first time in its history. As a flagship publication of the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), the GRFC serves as the key reference for understanding acute food insecurity at global, regional and country levels. Produced through a collaborative effort among 18 partners, it provides a consensus-based assessment of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in countries affected by food crises, with the aim of informing and guiding both humanitarian and development responses.
May 16th, 2025

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2025

In 2024, 295.3 million people – 22.6 percent of the analyzed population – faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 53 of the 65 countries/territories selected for the Global Report on Food Crises. This is the sixth consecutive annual increase. An additional 13 .7 million people faced high levels of acute food insecurity since 2023, corresponding to a marginal shift in prevalence from 21 .5 percent. Deteriorating acute food insecurity in 19 countries, mainly in conflict-driven crises such as Nigeria, the Sudan and Myanmar, outweighed improvements in 15 others, including Afghanistan, Kenya and Ukraine, due to better economic and weather conditions as well as assistance.
Sep 5th, 2024

Global Report on Food Crises 2024 Mid-Year Update

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 Mid-Year Update is an update of the GRFC 2024 and provides the latest data on acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition as of August 2024. This update highlights changes in high levels of acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition since the peak in 2023.
It is the result of a collaborative effort among 16 partners, achieving a consensus-based assessment of the current state of acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition.
Apr 24th, 2024

Global Report on Food Crises 2024

In 2023, 281.6 million people or 21.5 percent of the analysed population faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 59 food-crisis countries/territories.
May 3rd, 2023

Global Report on Food Crises 2023

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2023 estimates that over a quarter of a billion people were acutely food-insecure and required urgent food assistance in 58 food-crisis countries/territories in 2022. This is the highest number in the seven-year history of the GRFC.
Sep 5th, 2022

Global Report on Food Crises 2022 (mid-year update)

By mid-2022, the magnitude and severity of acute food insecurity in countries/territories with available data reached alarming levels, but better analysis is needed in more places to ensure a full understanding of global needs.
May 5th, 2021

Global Report on Food Crises - 2021

The 2021 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021) highlights the remarkably high severity and numbers of people in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) or equivalent in 55 countries/territories, driven by persistent conflict, pre-existing and COVID-19-related economic shocks, and weather extremes. The number identified in the 2021 edition is the highest in the report’s five-year existence.
Sep 29th, 2020

Global Report on Food Crises - 2020 September update

This September update of the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises with a special focus on COVID-19 finds that a range of 101–104.6 million people in 27 countries are classified in Crisis or worse (IPC/CH Phase 3 or above) according to analyses carried out between March and September 2020, reflecting the peak situation in times of COVID-19 in countries.