The United Nations, Guterres: Hunger is the failure of humanity

Stefano Lizshenski – Vatican City

The emergence of hunger in the world “more than just a failure of systems, it is a failure of humanity.” The Secretary -General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, is strongly commented by the data mentioned in the global report on the food crisis, version 2025, which it produced annually before. Food Security Information Network It was launched by the Global Network against Food Crises, an international alliance for the United Nations, the European Union and governmental and non -governmental agencies that work together to treat food crises. “This report is another act of work that has been resolved against a dangerous world, of course,” says Guterres.

And condemnation: “The long, long crisis adds another, more modern: the sharp limit of human funds to save lives in response to these needs.”

Data report 2025

More than 295 million people in the world are in conditions of dangerous food insecurity. This number corresponds to the year 2024 and arises from monitoring, including various international organizations in 65 countries, of which 53 are affected by dangerous levels of acute hunger.

Compared to 2023, the total number of people affected by food crises increased by about 14 million.

“It is the sixth year in a row in which the total number of people continues in the dangerous food security conditions,” says Aurélien Mellin of the organization’s emergency department.

Despite the increase in the number of countries that are monitored, the main factors in the growing emergency are still wars, climate change and natural disasters. However, in 2024, other factors emerged increasing the exacerbation of the situation throughout this year.

The effect of reducing money

Aurélien Mellin says: “The economic and financial uncertainty worldwide and the reduction in money in financial programs related to cooperation has an impact on food insecurity in many countries,” says Aurélien Mellin. The risks, according to the experts of the organization, from other United Nations and European Union agencies, are that even developments in about 15 countries, where projects related to rural support and agriculture have been developed.

There is a symbolic case in this regard is the case of Afghanistan, where, thanks to international humanitarian and agricultural assistance, the number of people in difficult food conditions decreased by more than 4 million, which reduced the number of people in emergency to 16 million.

Women and children, the most affected

Children and women are still the ones who suffer more than others due to food crises: the report highlights how approximately 38 million children under the age of five suffer from seriously malnutrition in 26 countries. The most serious situation is recorded in Sudan, Yemen, Mali and the Gaza Strip, and all contexts are among the dangerous geopolitical tensions and where the number of displaced and refugees is important.

It gets worse due to economic instability

Economic shocks worldwide, although they are not modern, still have a very strong impact on aggravating acute food insecurity. The most affected countries are those that have a great dependence on food and technology imports in the agricultural sector, due to the reduction in the value of the currency, the high prices and the high levels of debt.

Experts on the global network against food crises also expect these dynamics to exacerbate due to the ongoing commercial wars.

“Even the war in Ukraine,” Melin explains, “Millen has caused,” “I have caused economic clashes in the poorest countries in the world, with a special impact on increasing the prices of food products, which have already suffered from an inflationary effect from the epidemic.

It is clear that we can expect that there will be an impact on the insecurity of the population also due to the reduction of humanitarian aid programs, which means that these population will not get the humanitarian aid necessary for their survival. “

Call of the United Nations Network

Melin, “The message we are trying to transmit through this report, and the work of the global network partners against food crises, is the need to enhance comprehensive humanitarian assistance, which focuses on distributing each of the distribution of aid and developing agricultural production available in the future.

Since 2023, the needs have exceeded the available resources. Humanitarian operations are now in the maximum, forced to reduce and increase support for the most vulnerable.

According to the global network partners against hunger, it becomes necessary to have more fair and effective economic governance, which must be accompanied by programs led by governments aimed at reducing hunger and termination.

In this sense, peace and prevention should become an integral part of the long -term transformation of diets. Without all this, people will continue to face hunger throughout their lives and will die the most vulnerable.