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FOOD INSECURITY
Across the world, humanitarian food needs continued to rise in 2024, with 343 million people suffering from acute food insecurity. Key drivers of food insecurity included political instability, conflict, forced displacement, and extreme weather events such as floods and earthquakes. High food inflation doubled in 26 countries across the globe over the last four years, diminishing purchasing power and thereby leaving millions of people unable to afford food. In Asia and the Pacific, 88 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, a sharp increase from 28 million people in 2019 and needs have risen every year since then.
Many countries battled multiple drivers of food insecurity at once, such as Bangladesh, which continued to support the protracted Rohingya refugee crisis response, as over 1 million refugees have crossed the border since the mass exodus in 2017. Meanwhile, in 2024, communities in Bangladesh struggled to meet basic food needs in a context of intense political insecurity, due to high inflation and extreme weather events, including Cyclone Remal, monsoons and flooding – the latter affecting over 20 million people. In the Philippines, communities felt the devastating impact of six successive typhoons over a span of 25 days, affecting 15 million people. High-intensity natural hazards are recurring in this southeast Asian nation, which ranked as the most at risk of disasters out of 193 countries, according to the 2024 World Risk Report.