Global Report on Food Crises - 2021
Global Report on Food Crises - 2020 September update
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.
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.
Global Report on Food Crises 2018
Global Report on Food Crises 2019
Sharp increase in food insecurity because of COVID-19, says global food crises report update
In 2019, as many as 135 million people across 55 countries required urgent food, nutrition, and livelihood assistance, according to the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises. This was the highest global number of acutely food-insecure people on record. The GRFC’s mid-year update, released last week, takes a look at recent data for 26 of those countries (plus Togo) and specifically examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Near-real-time monitoring of food crisis risk factors for improved early warning early action
In 2019, 135 million people in 55 countries faced crisis level acute food insecurity, driven primarily by conflict, weather extremes, and economic shocks, according to the 2020 Global Report on Food Crises. With hunger on the rise, there is a clear need to improve early warning systems and other tools to prevent food crises. One way to do this is to improve and increase the use of real-time monitoring of food crisis risk factors in early warning early action systems.
Global Report on Food Crises
The 2021 edition of The Global Report on Food Crises describes that the magnitude and severity of food crises worsened in 2020 as protracted conflict, the economic fallout of COVID-19 and weather extremes exacerbated pre-existing fragilities. Forecasts point to a grim outlook for 2021, with the threat of Famine persisting in some of the world’s worst food crises.
Global Report on Food Crises 2020
Global Report on Food Crises mid-year update tracks world’s food security hotspots
For the past three years, the number of people around the world in urgent need of food and nutrition assistance has remained above 100 million, according to the annual Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC). The annual report aims to provide governments, international organizations, and other stakeholders with the data and analysis needed to respond to and prevent the crises that lead to such massive food-insecure populations. In a first-ever mid-year update to the report, GRFC partners provide a revised look at the severity of current global food crises in terms of the number of acutely food-insecure people, as well as the status of the crisis: Improving, deteriorating, or stable.