Global Report on Food Crises: Summary | Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC 2021)

The scale and severity of food crises intensified in 2020 due to the perpetuation of several conflicts, the economic repercussions of COVID-19 and extreme weather conditions that exacerbated existing vulnerabilities. The forecasts paint a grim outlook for 2021, with the threat of famines lingering in many of the world’s worst food crises.

At the end of 2020, the global goal of “zero hunger” by 2030 seemed even further out of reach given the further increase in the number of people living with acute food and nutrition insecurity in urgent need of assistance. food, nutrition and livelihood protection assistance.

The GRFC focuses on food crises where local response capacities are insufficient, and where urgent mobilization of the international community has been required, as well as on countries and territories where available evidence indicates that the magnitude and severity of the food crisis exceed the resources and local response capacities.

It provides population estimates based on the Integrated Food Security Classification Framework (IPC) and the Harmonized Framework (CH) – or comparable sources – for countries and territories where data is available.

At least 155 million people in 55 countries / territories were in Crisis or worse (IPC / CH Phase 3 or greater) in 2020, an increase of about 20 million people compared to 2019. Among the 39 countries / territories included in the GRFC since 2016, the number of people in Crisis or worse (IPC / CH Phase 3 or more), or equivalent, increased from 94 million to 147 million, reflecting the worsening of the food insecurity and the extension of the geographical coverage of the analyzes.

Source: European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations/Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations/Food Security Information Network/World Food Program