The Hunger Hotspots: FAO/WFP Early Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity report forms part of a series of analytical publications developed under the Global Network Against Food Crises initiative. Its purpose is to strengthen and coordinate the production and sharing of evidence-based information to help prevent and respond to food crises. The latest edition of the report is available below.
New Hunger Hotspots 2025 report
The latest Hunger Hotspots 2025 report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns that severe hunger is likely to worsen in 16 countries and territories between November 2025 and May 2026, compared with the same period last year.
Six places are of highest concern – Sudan, Palestine (Gaza Strip and West Bank), South Sudan, Yemen, Mali and Haiti – where people are already facing, or are at risk of falling into, life-threatening levels of hunger.
Another six – Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, Somalia and Syria – are classed as very high concern. Burkina Faso, Chad, Kenya and the situation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are also identified as hunger hotspots.
Armed conflict, violence, collapsing economies, extreme weather and a sharp drop in humanitarian funding are combining to push communities towards starvation. FAO and WFP warn that by late 2025, the world has only a narrowing window to act to prevent widespread hunger and loss of life in these hotspots.
