Across Africa, hunger is no longer a slow moving crisis but a measurable collapse in food security: more than 300 million people are now undernourished, nearly one in five on the continent, while close to 900 million struggle to secure enough food at all, even as global hunger shows small signs of easing.
Conflict, climate shocks, collapsing farm incomes and broken supply chains are converging at once, leaving smallholder farmers unable to grow, store, or sell enough food, and unless agricultural systems are stabilized fast, Africa is on track to carry the majority of the world’s hunger burden by the end of this decade.
