In its tenth annual report, published on Friday 24 April, the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) - which includes the European Union, UNICEF and the World Food Programme - revealed that 266 million people, or 23% of the population analysed worldwide, suffered from acute food insecurity in 2025. Twice as many as in 2016.
For the first time, two famines were confirmed simultaneously in the same year, in Gaza and Sudan, due to the combined effect of conflict and restricted access to humanitarian aid. The analysis also points to an extreme concentration of hunger, with ten countries, including Afghanistan, Myanmar and South Sudan, accounting for two-thirds of the victims. At the same time, child malnutrition is worsening, affecting 35.5 million children.
Hadja Lahbib, European Commissioner for Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management, described the report as a “call to act”, promising to make it “our ‘compass’ to navigate rising hunger in a more complex world”.
To read the full GNAFC report: https://aeur.eu/f/lpq (Original version in French by Justine Manaud)