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GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY REPORT 2025

The number of hungry people in the world decreased slightly in 2024 according to a new United Nations report. Progress, however, was not consistent across the globe, as hunger continued to rise in most subregions of Africa and western Asia.

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Date 07/23/2025

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Shotlist STORY: FAO / GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY REPORT
TRT: 4:09
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS
DATELINE: 11 JULY 2025, ROME ITALY /FILE

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FILE

1. Wide shot, FAO Headquarters
2. Med shot, FAO sign

11 JULY 2025, ROME, ITALY

3. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“This year the SOFI [The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report] brings important results in terms of food security in the world. First, the number of hungry people was reduced. We are talking of 673 million people in hunger in 2024. Second, access to healthy diets is improved slightly to 2.6 billion people that cannot afford a healthy diet - the minimum cost healthy diet. Now, if we project the number of hungry people to 2030, we will be with 512 million people in hunger by 2030. Now, these number also capture the diversity across regions. From these 512 million in 2030, 60 percent of those will be in Africa. Which means that Africa has been deteriorating in terms of hunger, while Latin America, especially South America, has been improving and Asia, especially in South Asia, driven by India, has been significantly improving.”

FILE, INDIA

4. Various shot, two men riding a combine harvester
5. Wide shot, women working in a field

11 JULY 2025, ROME, ITALY

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“South America has been able to implement and to lead in many of very important social programs that have created significant impacts. These programs, for example, are cash transfers, conditional cash transfers, but also school feeding programs, which have been shown to be extremely successful. Brazil, Mexico and other countries have taken a lead on that and have shown even during COVID-19 how important they were to avoid that the poorest people are moving into poverty because of the shocks we faced during COVID-19. Just to give you an example, Brazil was the only country in the world where extreme poverty reduced during COVID-19 because of the availability of more resources, through these programs of transfers, social protection programs.”

FILE, GUATEMALA

1. Varioous shots, school meal

FILE, GUYANA

2. Various shots, fields of wheat

FILE, BOLIVIA

3. Med shot, women selling produce

11 JULY 2025, ROME, ITALY

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“In the case of Africa where we are facing significant challenges because of number of hungry people that is increasing, the situation is not where it should be because of the several drivers, the key drivers. The first one of all is conflict. Conflict is affecting enormously many of the countries. And many of the countries which in food crisis are mostly because of conflict, but we also have microeconomic issues – the slowdowns and downturns which are affecting these economies which are already highly indepted and it is very difficult for them to cover the food import bill. Which explains why they were not able to have the levels of minimum calories to be able to move out of hunger. But we also have climate. And climate, though is affecting the whole world of course it affects more the most vulnerable.”

DECEMBER 2024, GOMA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

5. Aerial shot, displaced camp
6. Wide shot, people getting water at well

FILE, BENIN

7. Various shots, market

11 JULY 2025, ROME, ITALY

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“The SOFI also show us that the food prices have been increasing more and faster than the prices of other commodities.That means the food inflation has been faster and higher than the non-food inflation. And that, of course, affects the most vulnerable people, which their share of expenditures in food is higher than in other commodities.”

FILE, SRI LANKA

9. Tracking shot, market
10. Various shots, hands exchanging money

11 JULY 2025, ROME, ITALY

11. SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“Private financing will be essential. In everything we do, we cannot just use the governments and IFIs [International Financial Institutions] we also need to attract private financing. And climate financing needs to increase substantially. In agrifood systems today they are at 4 percents, while the agrifood systems are the ones providing the right to food. So, we need to change that abruptly so that we can have financing that is needed to transform our agrifood systems so that we can assure that there is more availability of healthy diets in the world and the cost of the healthy diet is reduced in the world and that we can accelerate the transmition of decline of the prices of commodities into the final products that we eat.”

FILE, SRI LANKA

12. Various shots, costumer picking up produce

Script STORYLINE:

The number of hungry people in the world decreased slightly in 2024 according to a new United Nations report. Progress, however, was not consistent across the globe, as hunger continued to rise in most subregions of Africa and western Asia.

“Africa has been deteriorating in terms of hunger, while Latin America, especially South America, has been improving, and Asia, especially South Asia driven by India, has been significantly improving,” said Maximo Torero, Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, commenting on the outcomes of the report.

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI 2025) report jointly published by five United Nations specialized agencies indicates that an estimated 8.2 percent of the global population, or about 673 million people, experienced hunger in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023 and 8.7 percent in 2022.

SOFI 2025 indicates that between 638 and 720 million people faced hunger in 2024.

Based on the midpoint estimate of 673 million, this represents a decrease of 15 million people from 2023 and of 22 million from 2022.

Notable improvements are seen in southern Asia, mainly reflecting new data from India, and Latin America. Hunger in Asia fell from 7.9 percent in 2022 to 6.7 percent, or 323 million people, in 2024. Additionally, Latin America and the Caribbean saw undernourishment fall to 5.1 percent, or 34 million people, in 2024, down from a peak of 6.1 percent in 2020.

SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“South America has been able to implement and to lead in many of very important social programs that have created significant impacts. These programs, for example, are cash transfers, conditional cash transfers, but also school feeding programs, which have been shown to be extremely successful. Brazil, Mexico and other countries have taken a lead on that and have shown even during COVID-19 how important they were to avoid that the poorest people are moving into poverty because of the shocks we faced during COVID-19. Just to give you an example, Brazil was the only country in the world where extreme poverty reduced during COVID-19 because of the availability of more resources, through these programs of transfers, social protection programs.”

Unfortunately, this positive trend contrasts sharply with the steady rise in hunger across Africa and western Asia, including in many countries affected by prolonged food crises. The proportion of the population facing hunger in Africa surpassed 20 percent in 2024, affecting 307 million people, while in western Asia an estimated 12.7 percent of the population, or more than 39 million people, may have faced hunger in 2024.

According to the current projection, 512 million people could be chronically undernourished by 2030, with nearly 60 percent of them in Africa.

SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“In the case of Africa where we are facing significant challenges because of number of hungry people that is increasing, the situation is not where it should be because of the several drivers, the key drivers. The first one of all is conflict. Conflict is affecting enormusly many of the countries. And many of the countries which in food crisis are mostly because of conflict, but we also have microeconomic issues – the slowdowns and downturns which are affecting these economies which are already highly indepted and it is very difficult for them to cover the food import bill. Which explains why they were not able to have the levels of minimum calories to be able to move out of hunger. But we also have climate. And climate, though is affecting the whole world of course it affects more the most vulnerable.”

SOFI 2025 also examines the causes and consequences of the 2021–2023 food price surge and its impact on food security and nutrition. The report highlights that the global policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic —characterized by extensive fiscal and monetary interventions — combined with the impacts of the war in Ukraine and multiple extreme weather events contributed to recent inflationary pressures.

SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“The SOFI also show us that the food prices have been increasing more and faster than the prices of other commodities.That means the food inflation has been faster and higher than the non-food inflation. And that, of course, affects the most vulnerable people, which their share of expenditures in food is higher than in other commodities.”

Food inflation has hindered the post-pandemic recovery in food security and nutrition. Since 2020, global food price inflation has consistently outpaced headline inflation. The gap peaked in January 2023, with food inflation reaching 13.6 percent, 5.1 percentage points above the headline rate of 8.5 percent.

Low-income countries have been particularly hit hard by rising food prices. While median global food price inflation increased from 2.3 percent in December 2020 to 13.6 percent in early 2023, it climbed even higher in low-income countries, peaking at 30 percent in May 2023.

The report recommends a combination of policy responses to food price inflation. They include targeted and time-bound fiscal measures, such as social protection programs, to safeguard vulnerable households; credible and transparent monetary policies to contain inflationary pressures; and strategic investments in agrifood R&D, transport and production infrastructure, and market information systems to improve productivity and resilience.

SOUNDBITE (English) Maximo Torero, Chief Economist, FAO:
“Private financing will be essential. In everything we do, we cannot just use the governments and IFIs [International Financial Institutions] we also need to atract private financing. And climate financing needs to increase substentialy. In agrifood systems today they are at 4 percents, while the agrifood systems are the ones providing the right to food. So, we need to change that abruptly so that we can have financing that is needed to transform our agrifood systems so that we can assure that there is more availability of healthy diets in the world and the cost of the healthy diet is reduced in the world and that we can accelerate the transmition of decline of the prices of commodities into the final products that we eat.”

Despite rising global food prices and the increasing cost of a healthy diet, the number of people unable to afford a healthy diet fell from 2.76 billion in 2019 to 2.60 billion in 2024. However, the improvement was uneven. In low-income countries, where the cost of a healthy diet rose more sharply than in wealthier countries, the number of people unable to afford one increased from 464 million in 2019 to 545 million in 2024. In lower-middle-income countries (excluding India), the number rose from 791 million in 2019 to 869 million over the same period.

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