The number of people suffering from severe food insecurity worldwide is on the rise, driven by the compounding effects of the climate crisis, conflict and economic shocks. FAO, WFP and the Global Network Against Food Crises organised a side event during the European Humanitarian Forum in March 2024 to emphasise the role of social protection and resilience programming as strategic instruments to effectively address the pressing circumstances and stimulate coordination across Humanitarian-Development-Peace nexus interventions. The discussion highlighted the need to strengthen social protection systems in synergy with resilience and humanitarian programming, especially in fragile and conflict-affected settings, showcasing concrete examples of such approaches from the Sahel, Somalia, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The HDP Nexus Coalition emerged from the United Nations Food Systems Summit in 2021 as a multi-stakeholder mechanism to support Member States affected by food crises and conflict in the operationalization and implementation of their National Food Systems Transformation Pathways.

This technical note provides an analysis of IPC/CH datasets in countries with populations at risk of facing IPC/CH Phase 5 and identifies the areas with the most severe levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition.

The January 2024 update covers the following countries/territories: Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen. Palestine (Gaza) was added due to the escalation of the conflict in late-2023.