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  • Publication | 2024

Global Report on Food Crises 2024 Mid-Year Update

The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2024 Mid-Year Update is an update of the GRFC 2024 and provides the latest data on acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition as of August 2024. This update highlights changes in high levels of acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition since the peak in 2023. It is the result of a collaborative effort among 16 partners, achieving a consensus-based assessment of the current state of acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition.

Global Food and Nutrition Security

Key findings:

  • In the Sudan, Famine (IPC Phase 5) is ongoing in the Zamzam Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) site near El Fasher, North Darfur, and is expected to persist through October 2024.
  • The Gaza Strip (Palestine) remains the most severe food crisis in the history of the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC), with all 2.2 million residents still in urgent need of food and livelihood assistance between March and April 2024.
  • Better harvests and stabilizing economies drove improvements in food security in 16 countries.
  • Shocks, such as intensifying conflict, El Ninõ-induced drought and high domestic food prices drove worsening  food crises in 18 countries.
  • Forced displacement of people in food-crisis countries/territories continues to increase, with alarming numbers of people in the Gaza Strip and the Sudan exposed to very high levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition.
  • Acute malnutrition among children and women in food-crisis countries/territories is persistently high, especially in conflict-affected areas.