Global hunger levels hit record highs, GRFC warns

The 2025 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC) highlighted a continued decline in global food security, leaving over 294 million people suffering crisis-level conditions in 2024. 

While Morocco wasn’t among the 65 countries selected for analysis, the report found the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region to be heavily affected.

The analysis revealed that conflicts, weather extremes, and economic shocks were the primary drivers behind the troubling rise of acute food insecurity worldwide. 

Sudan, Yemen, Mali, and the Gaza Strip are the most impacted territories, according to the GRFC. 

Within the Middle East, Palestine was listed among the countries with the largest shares of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity. 

This result is especially striking as 100% of the total analysed Palestinian population was projected to suffer dangerous levels of hunger. 

In North Africa, Mauritania ranked 11th globally for its severe nutrition crisis, which the report attributes to high staple food prices. 

Meanwhile, Egypt and Algeria were found to host large refugee populations facing food insecurity. In Egypt, 60% of refugees were in crisis-level food insecurity in 2024. 

Famine was registered in two countries: Palestine and Sudan– It is the direst form of hunger crisis, as per the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). 

This reflects the severe hunger that Palestinian and Sudanese people suffer from amid dangerous ongoing conflicts.

The 2025 GRFC marks the sixth consecutive annual rise in global food insecurity levels. The report’s findings paint a bleak outlook towards the upcoming year, as “nutrition services to at least 14 million children are at risk”, which leaves the vulnerable group prone to severe malnutrition and death. 

Since 2016, the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) has published an annual Global Report on Food Crises with evidence-based data to inform and drive humanitarian action.