State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
In News
What Happened
Why It Matters
Background
History & Context
What Changed
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BEFORE: Previous reports heavily emphasized the lingering aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and immediate supply chain disruptions. NOW: The 2025 report explicitly centers on sustained food price inflation and escalating climate-driven extreme weather as the predominant drivers of global food insecurity.
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BEFORE: Affordability of healthy diets was measured against relatively stable base inflation rates in developing nations prior to recent global conflicts. NOW: High and entrenched food inflation has significantly widened the dietary gap, making healthy diets definitively unaffordable for a much larger subset of the 2.33 billion food-insecure individuals.
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BEFORE: Global focus heavily relied on short-term food aid interventions to conflict zones. NOW: The joint UN agencies strongly advocate for integrating climate resilience into long-term agricultural financing to mitigate recurring weather shocks.
Prelims Angle
NCERT Connection
Practice Questions
Q1
Correct Statement(s)Which of the following statements regarding the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report is/are correct? 1. It is published exclusively by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to measure the Prevalence of Undernourishment (PoU). 2. It tracks global progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: Zero Hunger.