{"id":22786,"date":"2025-05-17T04:10:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T22:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22786"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:16:31","slug":"global-report-on-food-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-report-on-food-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Report on Food Crises"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Global Report on Food Crises Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Global Report on Food Crises 2025, released in May 2025, reveals that acute hunger has reached a new record high globally.<\/p>\n<h2>About Global Report on Food Crises<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) is an annual, consensus-based technical report coordinated by the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) in support of the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC).<\/li>\n<li>It is produced through a partnership of key UN agencies (including FAO, WFP, UNICEF), the European Union, and other international organisations and NGOs.<\/li>\n<li>The GRFC provides in-depth analysis of acute food insecurity and malnutrition at global, regional, and country levels, identifying immediate and underlying drivers, and guiding humanitarian and development interventions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Findings of the 2025 GRFC<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Record High Acute Hunger:\u00a0<\/strong>In 2024, 295.3 million people in 53 countries faced acute food insecurity, up from 281.6 million in 2023. This marks the sixth consecutive annual increase and the highest level since reporting began.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crisis Severity:\u00a0<\/strong>Nearly a quarter of the population in the assessed countries suffered from acute hunger, with 1.9 million people facing famine conditions (IPC\/CH Phase 5)-more than double the previous year.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Humanitarian Funding Crisis:\u00a0<\/strong>Humanitarian allocations to food sectors could fall by up to 45% in 2025, threatening life-saving nutrition services for at least 14 million children and disrupting aid in major crisis zones.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Children and Women:\u00a0<\/strong>Over 37 million children under five in 26 countries suffered from acute malnutrition in 2024, with more than 10.2 million experiencing severe acute malnutrition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Global Report on Food Crises FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong>\u00a0What is the Global Report on Food Crises report?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0It is an annual report analyzing acute food insecurity and malnutrition worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.\u00a0<\/strong>What is the current food crisis in the world?<\/p>\n<p>Ans. Over 295 million people in 53 countries face severe hunger, mainly due to conflict, climate disasters, and economic shocks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.\u00a0<\/strong>Who releases the GRFC report?<\/p>\n<p>Ans. The Food Security Information Network (FSIN) in support of the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) releases it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4.\u00a0<\/strong>What is the FAO report on food crisis?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong>\u00a0The FAO contributes to the GRFC, which details global acute hunger, its drivers, and affected countries each year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/global-acute-hunger-hits-record-high-un-warns-of-bleak-2025-outlook-8429925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global food policy report 2024 is launched by the International Food Policy Research Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":47906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[506,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-22786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-global-report-on-food-crises","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}