Summary
This annual flagship report from five UN agencies provides a comprehensive assessment of progress — or lack thereof — towards SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), using the latest available data on hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition across global and regional populations. The 2025 edition focuses thematically on high food price inflation as a structural driver of reduced dietary quality and affordability, examining its transmission through food systems and its disproportionate impact on low-income households. It is likely to include policy recommendations directed at governments, international institutions, and food system actors to address inflationary pressures while protecting nutritional outcomes.
UK applicability
While the report is global in scope with regional breakdowns, its analysis of food price inflation and diet affordability is directly relevant to UK food policy debates, particularly regarding cost-of-living pressures, food poverty, and the accessibility of nutritious diets for lower-income households in Britain.
Key measures
Prevalence of undernourishment (PoU); prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity (FIES); stunting, wasting and overweight rates in children under five; cost and affordability of a healthy diet; food consumer price indices
Outcomes reported
Reports on the prevalence of hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition globally and by region, with a particular focus on the role of high food price inflation in undermining access to safe, nutritious, and sufficient food.
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