Africa: Africa's Food Insecurity Eases for First Time in a Decade. The Next Task is Making the Gains Harder to Reverse

[allAfrica] Across Africa last year, fewer people were uncertain about their ability to obtain adequate food or were forced to reduce the quality and quantity of what they ate. It was the first continent-wide improvement in food insecurity in a decade. The Hunger rate declined for the first time in nearly a decade, from 20.3 percent in 2024 to 20 percent in 2025.

Moderate or severe food insecurity fell from 58.5 to 56.6 per cent, which is 8.6mn fewer people. Severe food insecurity also declined.