Global Hunger Response Phase II Quarterly Situation Report #2 - April 2024

This is the second quarterly report released by the Global Hunger Response (GHR) which provides a detailed overview of our qualitative and quantitative impacts, including regional situational overviews and highlights over the course of the last quarter of the Response's Phase II work (January 2024 - April 2024).

Conflict, weather extremes, and economic shocks remain the main drivers of hunger, pushing more people into high levels of acute food insecurity. The number of people living in acute food insecurity has increased by 9% since 2022 and currently stands at a record 281.6 million, which constitutes 21.5% of the analysed populations (59 countries) in the latest 2024 Global Report on Food Crises. Acute malnutrition also remains at a rise with 36.4 million children under 5 years affected by wasting, out of which 9.8 million are severely wasted. In fact, nearly half of children’s deaths globally are related to malnutrition. Further, 9.3 million pregnant and breastfeeding women are also deeply affected by malnutrition globally. 

Most of the affected countries experience the compounded impact of the multiple drivers of food insecurity, given the strong interlinkages and causality between the drivers and the pre-existing poverty, structural weaknesses, and uneven recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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