Food Crises

2025 Global Food Policy Report | Food Policy: Lessons and Priorities for a Changing World

Over the last 50 years, the world’s food systems have evolved tremendously amid major economic, environmental, and social changes. Throughout this period, policy research has played a critical role in providing evidence and analysis to inform decision-... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

2025 Global Report on Food Crises: Rising food insecurity, waning humanitarian assistance

The world faced a stark inflection point in 2024, as the continued rise in the number of people facing crisis-to-catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity meets sharp reductions in funding for humanitarian assistance. The 2025 Global Report on Food ... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

The world is nowhere near the goal of zero hunger by 2030 amid uncertain global development financing. What now?

In the wake of a series of recent crises that drove up global hunger and food insecurity, the world remains far off track in meeting Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2)—ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Now, in a chaotic global environment of s... Source: IFPRI Malawi: Malawi Strategy Support Program

How conflict drives hunger: Six channels through the food system

Much has been said and written of late about the linkages between conflict and hunger. There is good reason for this: 65% of the world’s acutely food-insecure people live in conflict-affected countries. Source: IFPRI Africa Regional Office (AFR)

Tale of two villages: In Malawi, farmers point the way as drought drives hunger

People are going hungry already. This should be the season of plenty but food is running out. There’s evidence that people’s ability to deal with these things has been eroded over time Source: IFPRI Africa Regional Office (AFR)