Key Takeaways
A new FAO and World Food Programme report names 13 hunger hotspots for June through November 2026, with Nigeria and Somalia moved into the highest famine-risk tier.
Humanitarian funding for food, agriculture, and nutrition fell about 59 percent between 2022 and 2025, even as acute food insecurity reached 266 million people.
As of June 2026, only about a third of prioritized food-security funding has been met, leaving aid groups to choose who eats.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme released a new Hunger Hotspots report on June 17, naming 13 places where food insecurity is set to worsen through November, with Nigeria and Somalia joining the highest-risk tier amid famine concerns.
Conflict drives the crisis in 12 of the 13 hotspots, with Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen, and Palestine the most critical. Sudan remains the world's worst hunger crisis, with famine risk across parts of Darfur expected to continue into early 2027.
The harder number sits underneath the map. Humanitarian funding for food, farming, and nutrition dropped by an estimated 59 percent between 2022 and 2025, levels not seen in nearly a decade. That number is worth sitting with.
A separate 2026 Global Report on Food Crisis found acute food insecurity has more than doubled since 2016, from 105 million people to 266 million, and that famine was declared in two countries at the same time for the first time. FAO officials said only about a third of the most prioritized food-security funding had been met as of June, forcing what one director called extremely difficult choices.
The pattern here is hard to ignore. The need is climbing and the money built to meet it is falling at the same time. WYDE has tracked the domestic version of this, from SNAP cuts projected to cause 70,000 avoidable deaths to the economics of how a group like Feed the Children turns revenue into meals. When emergency relief thins out exactly as more people depend on it, the model itself becomes the story.
People Also Ask
What are the 2026 hunger hotspots?
The FAO and WFP name 13 countries and territories, including Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen, Palestine, Nigeria, and Somalia, where acute food insecurity is expected to worsen through November 2026.
How much has humanitarian food funding dropped?
Funding for food, agriculture, and nutrition assistance fell about 59 percent between 2022 and 2025, returning to levels last seen nearly a decade earlier.
How many people face acute food insecurity in 2026?
About 266 million people face acute food insecurity, more than double the 105 million recorded when the global report first published in 2016.
Why is global hunger getting worse?
Conflict drives hunger in 12 of the 13 hotspots, compounded by climate shocks, economic instability, and a sharp decline in humanitarian funding.
Sources: UN News, World Food Programme, Action Against Hunger