Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is seeking $1.9 billion for 2025 to save the lives and livelihoods of some of the world’s most food-insecure populations, as acute hunger tightens its grip across the world’s major food crises. With these funds, nearly 49 million people would be able to produce their own food and make their own way out of acute food insecurity.
The announcement was made as part of the United Nations’ large-scale humanitarian appeal launched today.
In 2024, escalating violence drove extreme hunger crises in places such as Gaza, the Sudan and Haiti. The number of people facing, or projected to face, catastrophic hunger conditions [classified as Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Phase 5] more than doubled – from 705,000 people across five countries/territories in 2023 to 1.9 million people by mid-2024 in Gaza, Haiti, Mali, South Sudan and the Sudan. Famine conditions were declared in Zamzam Camp in the Sudan, and other parts of the country were at risk.
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