Recent statistics from the World Food Programme (WFP) 2025 Global Outlook reveal a staggering reality: approximately 343 million people are believed to be acutely food insecure across 74 countries. Up to 19 million people are estimated to be on the brink of famine in 2024, with the regions of Sudan, Gaza, Haiti, and Mali being most affected by acute food insecurity. These areas suffer from a dire lack of resources, making it nearly impossible to address food insecurity effectively. The Global Information and Early Warning Systems (GIEWS) 2024 report identifies 45 countries as the most food insecure, with 33 in Africa, 9 in Asia, 2 in Latin America, and 1 in Europe. The primary drivers of this crisis include: high food prices, civil insecurity, natural disasters, war and conflicts, economic constraints, weather extremes, reduced livelihood opportunities, and lack of climate resilience. In conflicted zones, humanitarian aid is often obstructed, leaving millions without access to life-saving assistance. The key to overcoming such challenges lies in deep international collaboration. While achieving cooperation among stakeholders is complex and entangled in power dynamics and political, social, and economic stakes, it is essential. Without it, the world's risk of failing to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, which aims to eradicate global hunger by 2030, is increasing. Numerous organizations, including WFP, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the United Nations Office for Outer State Affairs (UNOOSA), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the World Bank, the Global Hunger Index (GHI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), are working tirelessly to overcome this crisis. These organizations are leveraging trade policies, providing humanitarian assistance, and working on climate resilience programs to stabilize food prices and provide relief to vulnerable populations. According to Global Humanitarian Overview 2025, 305 million people worldwide will require urgent humanitarian assistance and protection. In 2024, the efforts of the UN and the aforementioned organizations paved the way to help nearly 190 million people across 72 countries. However, with conflicts and climate conditions worsening, the need for aid is expected to grow. Humanitarian partners collaborate worldwide, resulting in nearly 116 million people receiving at least one form of humanitarian assistance in 2024. They are collaborating to improve the quality of aid by promoting locally-led actions, providing people-centered responses, and expanding cash assistance programs.
To overcome food insecurity The importance of swift political action is needed to put an end to wars and conflicts and to assist crisis-prone, impoverished, famished, and displaced people. In this regard, urgent climate action is also required to determine work to combat the global climate crisis and to ensure that climate financing reaches those on the brink of catastrophe. For the betterment of vulnerable communities across the world, the first step is to put an end to the continuous warfare around the globe and to hold accountable attacking states per international law. This can be achieved only through deep collaboration, not only at the global and national levels but more importantly at the individual level by sharing resources, knowledge, and expertise.