From Palestine’s Gaza and Sudan to Yemen and Haiti, the world’s worst food crises are now systemic. In 2025, several countries saw more than half their populations facing acute food insecurity at crisis or catastrophic levels.
In Gaza, international monitoring bodies confirmed a famine in mid-2025 under IPC Phase 5 conditions, with the entire population classified as facing acute food insecurity, with large shares in emergency and catastrophic levels.
Sudan also recorded a confirmed — and ongoing — famine in 2025, underscoring an unprecedented escalation in extreme hunger across multiple conflict zones
