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 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.
Yemen is still home to the world’s worst food security crisis, the report says. It also finds slight improvement in northern Nigeria and South Sudan; a deteriorating situation in Ethiopia; ongoing problems in Sudan; and escalating food insecurity in the Sahel due to conflict.
The report was created with support from the European Union and USAID.
Read and download the Global Report on Food Crises.
Original source: CGIAR
Published on 15 October 2019
