India, April 27 -- More than 266 million people in 47 countries faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025.

Hunger has nearly doubled in a decade, with famines declared in Gaza and parts of Sudan.

Conflict has overtaken extreme weather as the main driver.

Funding cuts and shrinking data coverage threaten effective humanitarian response and obscure true scale of crises.

More than 266 million people - roughly the population of a large country - are facing high levels of acute food insecurity across 47 countries, according to a major new report Global Report on Food Crises 2026 (GRFC 2026) released by an international alliance.

Global acute hunger has nearly doubled over the past decade and shows no sign of retreating. In fact, ...