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Bookmark or Share- Climate Explainer: Food Security and Climate Change - World Bank GroupThe number of people suffering acute food insecurity increased from 135 million in 2019 to 345 million in 82 countries by June 2022, as the war in Ukraine, supply chain disruptions, and the continued economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed food prices to all-time highs. Global food insecurity had already been rising, due in large part ...
- Food Security | Rising Food Insecurity - World Bank GroupDownload the latest brief on rising food insecurity and World Bank responses. Since the last update on October 18, 2024, the agricultural and cereal price indices closed 1 and 2 percent higher, respectively; the export price index closed at the same level. Maize prices closed 7% higher, while wheat and rice prices closed 5% lower respectively.
- Food Security Data & Research - World Bank GroupThe World Food Security Outlook tracks and analyzes global food security. It includes historical, preliminary, and forecast data on severe food insecurity worldwide. World Bank commodity prices. Monthly updates of prices of food and agriculture commodities, including food price index. Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) Market Monitor.
- Social Safety Nets Relieve Poverty—and Hunger. Madagascar Needs More of ...Rainfall gaps in 2018, 2019, and 2020—coupled with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic—mean more than two million people are likely to be acutely food insecure by March 2023. About 430,000 people in 37 communes have benefited since 2016 from a World Bank-funded cash transfer program and another 320,000 people since 2021 from a crisis ...
- MENA Has a Food Security Problem, But There Are Ways to Address ItIn 2020, MENA’s share of the world’s acutely food insecure people was 20%, disproportionately high compared to its 6% share of the population. The situation is worse where there is conflict, such as in Yemen and Syria. The UN estimates the number of Yemenis afflicted by food insecurity reached 24 million – ~83% of the population – in ...
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