Global Hunger Response Situation Update - September 2023

This is the 13th situation 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, through the end of August 2023.

The hunger situation globally continues to be alarming with millions of children and their families facing acute food insecurity. While the international mobilisation of funds and efforts have helped avoid catastrophic situations in some of the world’s most affected countries some countries have seen a record increase in the number of food insecure people over the first half of 2023. More than 128,000 people in four countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia, and South Sudan) face an extreme lack of food and are unable to meet other basic needs, even with emergency coping strategies.

Overall, an analysis of acute food insecurity shows a 10% increase in the number of food insecure people (IPC 3+) in 48 countries in 2023 so far. This number is likely to increase further as new analyses become available, with the impact most strongly felt by children. Food insecurity continues to be driven by interlinked and mutually reinforcing factors, frequently due to the interaction between shocks (such as conflict, economic stressors, climate shocks, displacement, and natural disasters) and underlying poverty, structural weaknesses, systemic injustices, and other vulnerability factors. This reinforces the need to work across the humanitarian-peace-development nexus to address issues of hunger and malnutrition in a sustainable manner.

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