Dramatic hunger surge strikes the Middle East and Africa, UN survey shows

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Dramatic hunger surge strikes the Middle East and Africa, UN survey shows    Global crises are fueling hunger in Africa and the Middle East, with trade tensions, conflicts, and climate change driving food inflation, according to the UN's SOFI report.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/28/dramatic-hunger-surge-strikes-the-middle-east-and-africa-un-survey-shows  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The unbearable burden of global prices increases hunger in Africa and Asia, including the Middle

00:10East. According to State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Survey, the so-called

00:16SOFI report 2025, trade tensions, conflicts and climate change are the main causes of the world's

00:22food inflation. Still, the situation is quite alarming, especially in Africa and especially

00:28in the Middle East. I would say those are the two areas where we're seeing the numbers continue to

00:32increase. So it's a mixture between the conflicts, I would say some of the disruption or shocks because

00:38of economic or trade tensions and also the climate shocks. So the three are the three main drivers.

00:44The proportion of the population facing hunger in Africa surpassed 20% in 2024, affecting 307 million

00:53people. While in Western Asia, an estimated 12.7% of the population or more than 39 million people

01:00faced hunger in 2024. Increasingly dire living conditions for small farmers and rural populations

01:07in the developing countries is a catalyst of economic migration flows.

01:12It's very clear that when people do not have the ability of really having a livelihood where they are,

01:19then they are forced to migrate. So there's obviously a relationship many times between

01:24migration, the ability of feeding themselves, the ability of also saving with that food production.

01:32Small-scale farmers produce one-third of the world's food and up to 70% of the food in Africa.

01:38They are essential to food supply and food security in their countries, yet they live in poverty and hunger.

01:4480% of the world's poorest live in the rural areas of developing countries.

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