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A famine is an acute episode of extreme hunger that results in excess mortality due to starvation or hunger-induced diseases.1. It is this crisis characteristic that distinguishes it from persistent malnutrition, which we discuss on another topic page.
Almost 70 percent of the 309 million people facing acute hunger are in fragile or conflict-hit countries. Violence and instability in the Middle East, East, Central and West Africa as well as in the Caribbean, southern Asia and Eastern Europe are particularly concerning.
22 cze 2021 · Famine is already present in four countries but millions more people are at risk, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Tuesday, underscoring the need for urgent funding and humanitarian...
23 kwi 2024 · Published by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) in support of the Global Network against Food Crises (GNAFC), the GRFC 2024 is the reference document for global, regional and country-level acute food insecurity in 2023.
6 lip 2022 · Around 2.3 billion people in the world (29.3%) were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021 – 350 million more compared to before the outbreak of the COVID‑19 pandemic. Nearly 924 million people (11.7% of the global population) faced food insecurity at severe levels, an increase of 207 million in two years.
The UN FAO estimated that one-in-three people in ‘developing countries’ suffered from hunger in 1970. Rates then plummeted, reaching 12% in 2015. In the last few years, the FAO has adapted its methodology for estimating undernourishment and no longer updates this long-term series from the 1970s.
2024 Global Report on Food Crises. Nearly 282 million people in 59 countries and territories experienced high levels of acute hunger in 2023 — 24 million more than the previous year. A new report offers a deep dive into why this is happening, and what the world needs to do about it.
