A Palestinian child walks away with a pot of rice obtained from a charity kitchen in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip last month amid a UN-declared famine after two years of war. Photograph: Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images
Conflict remains the most destructive force driving hunger across the planet, according to the 2025 Global Hunger Index (GHI).
Armed violence fuelled 20 food crises affecting nearly 140 million people in the past year, while wars in Gaza and Sudan “illustrate how conflict devastates both livelihoods and lifelines”, it says.
Global famine-level food insecurity, concentrated largely in those two settings, more than doubled betwee
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