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Conflict and Climate Drive Record Global Hunger in 2024, UN Says

  • On May 16, 2025, the United Nations published a report revealing that acute food insecurity and malnutrition among children have increased for the sixth year in a row, impacting more than 295 million individuals across 53 countries and territories.
  • The increase is driven by several intersecting factors, including conflict affecting close to 140 million individuals in 20 countries, severe weather patterns like droughts linked to El Nino, and economic challenges such as inflation and currency depreciation.
  • Further information indicates that famine-like conditions now affect 1.9 million individuals, marking the highest level recorded since 2016. Additionally, close to 38 million children under the age of five suffer from severe malnutrition across 26 nutrition crisis regions, including Sudan, Yemen, Mali, and Gaza. The situation is compounded by the displacement of about 95 million people, which intensifies food insecurity in crisis-affected countries.
  • The report highlights a 5% increase in hunger compared to 2023, noting that nearly one in five people in the most severely affected areas are facing crisis-level food insecurity or worse, while also warning of the sharpest anticipated reductions in humanitarian food aid—ranging from 10% to over 45%—describing the situation as a stark condemnation of global inaction.
  • Although food insecurity lessened in 15 countries such as Ukraine, Kenya, and Guatemala thanks to increased emergency assistance, better crop yields, reduced inflation, and declining conflict, the report emphasizes the need for greater support of local food production systems and continued comprehensive aid to effectively disrupt the cycle of hunger and confront the deteriorating prospects for 2025.
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FRESH NEWS broke the news in on Friday, May 16, 2025.
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