Food security keeps deteriorating globally according to the latest Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), published on 3 May 2023. There are currently around 258 million acutely food-insecure people (IPC/CH phase 3 or above or equivalent), who required urgent assistance in 58 food-crisis countries and territories in 2022. At least 376 000 people worldwide faced catastrophic conditions of food insecurity (IPC/CH phase 5) in 2022 in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Haiti, Nigeria and Burkina Faso. The number of countries/territories concerned is the highest in the history of the GRFC. Whilst the total figure is lower than in 2021, it should be noted that the report could not integrate data from Ethiopia, where over 400 000 people were in IPC phase 5 in the last edition of the report. Since 2022, food insecurity has been exacerbated by the direct effects of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the global economy, including on food prices, global supply of grains, as well as on the price of energy and fertilisers. These factors compounded food crises that were already raging due to conflicts, weather extremes (notably droughts and flooding resulting from climate change), and economic shocks due to the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. The Black Sea Grain Initiative, and the EU Solidarity Lanes, managed to alleviate upward price pressures. Whilst hunger has more than doubled in the past seven years, funding to address it is lagging behind, and the appeals for the main food crises remain severely underfunded. Furthermore, the humanitarian system overly relies on only a limited number of donors. Prospects for 2023 are dim, with several facts indicating that global food security is unlikely to improve in the next months. Specialised agencies warn that hunger is likely to further increase in the immediate future.