The Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) 2025 Mid-Year Update is an update of the GRFC 2025 and provides the latest data on acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition as of August 2025. This update highlights changes in high levels of acute food insecurity and acute malnutrition since the peak in 2024. 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.

Key findings:

• Six countries/ territories have populations facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity (IPC/CH phase 5): Sudan, Gaza, South Sudan, Yemen, Haiti, and Mali. The Gaza Governorate has been in famine since July, and other areas are projected to fall into famine. In Gaza, more than half a million people were facing starvation in July. In Sudan, famine was first confirmed in August 2024. In all six countries /territories, the crisis is human induced, as the ongoing conflicts are the main driver of acute food insecurity. According to the Mid-Year Update of the GRFC, some areas in South Sudan's Upper Nile state are at risk of famine due to escalating conflict and dire economic conditions.
• The countries or territories with the largest shares of high levels of acute food insecurity have remained largely the same between 2024 and August 2025. Gaza (100%), South Sudan (57%), Yemen (52%) and Sudan (51%), were also among the worst-affected in 2024, and they continue to be so in 2025, with Haiti (51%) also remaining in the five most gravely affected.
• In terms of the total number of people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, Nigeria (30.6 M), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (27.7 M) and Sudan (24.6 M) remain among the five worst hit in 2025. However, Bangladesh and Ethiopia are now replaced by Yemen (18.1 M) and Myanmar (16.7 M) in the worst five. It is important however to remark that Ethiopia is out of the list due to lack of data for 2025.
• Data on nutrition crises for 2025 are available for 24 countries and territories. Notably, 13 of these have over 1 million children aged 6-59 months who are acutely malnourished, with the largest numbers found in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Afghanistan. Sudan, Gaza, Yemen and South Sudan are facing the most severe nutrition crises in terms of prevalence.
• Conflict, economic shocks and weather extremes, underpinned by structural fragilities, continue to drive food crises.
• Humanitarian funding shortfall: The global humanitarian funding landscape is facing deep cuts, with a 17% drop in official development assistance (ODA) projected for 2025, and a significant reduction in funding for food security and nutrition programs. Such reduction in funding will challenge humanitarian response. For example, the World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian food agency, estimates that it will reach almost 16.7 million fewer people in 2025 than in 2024, representing a 21% decrease.
• The nutrition sector is severely impacted by funding cuts. Only 27% of the required nutrition funding had been secured by mid-2025. As a result, projections indicate that 2.3 million children will be left without treatment for severe acute malnutrition, potentially causing an additional 369,000 preventable child deaths annually.