An El Nino could pose a threat to food security amid a number of other global crises - including price spikes for fuel and fertilizer due to the Iran war.
Time
The traditional security crises, as in Russia and Ukraine crises, pose a threat to food security, especially in the oil sector.
Modern Diplomacy
In 2025, food crises are worsening worldwide, with Gaza at the center of global concern as the entire population faces acute food insecurity, a condition that puts lives at imminent risk.
Rinnovabili
In Africa, the African Risk Capacity program uses parametric triggers to release funds to member states within days of drought or flood events, enabling governments to scale up food assistance and protect agricultural livelihoods before crises deepen.
Better Worlds
On the internationally recognised 5-phase scale used to classify food crises, more than half a million people in Gaza - a quarter of the entire population - are now believed to be at the most severe Phase 5 catastrophic level, meaning a high risk of mass starvation and death.
Islamic Relief
Slowing global economic growth projections are unfolding against a bleak backdrop of skyrocketing inflation, fragmented global supply chains and the triple threat of the food, fuel, and finance crises.
UN News
The rise of AMR poses a serious risk to global health, leading to health catastrophes, economic burdens, and food security crises, particularly affecting poorer communities.
EDUREV.IN
The food system faces an unprecedented threat, driven by a web of crises including soil degradation, water scarcity, global heating and extreme weather.
Minerva-Manifest
Mass deportations risk humanitarian crises in Afghanistan, worsening food insecurity, unemployment, and straining regional stability and international relations.
VisaVerge
Between global conflicts and the threat of climate change, the food and beverage industry is facing supply-chain crises from multiple fronts, which will require stakeholders to find innovative ways to create a more resilient system that can endure for generations.
FoodNavigator-USA.com
To avoid the countless local and global water crises escalating into a global water crisis, effective water governance needs to promote equitable, climate risk-informed food as well as water policies.
Climate-Diplomacy
Many countries across the globe will continue facing the threat of food crises.
World Bank
As a confluence of geopolitical, economic, and climate crises fuels global shortages, a staggering 326 million people in dozens of countries need humanitarian aid, with 222 million facing acute food insecurity and up to 50 million at risk of starving to death.
Eco-business
Global food insecurity is putting millions of people at risk, and during hunger criseswomen are more vulnerable to the effects of malnutrition.
BBC
With the war in Ukraine amplifying other crises, resulting in increased prices for food and fertiliser, the UN chief highlighted the real risk of multiple famines in 2022, and the potential for even worse in 2023.
EnviroNews Nigeria -
With global climate change contributing to cascading crises that threaten to overwhelm existing risk management tools, the potential for a global food catastrophe is unprecedented, at least in recent history.
The Boston Globe
Food trade restrictions pose a serious risk for countries that are heavily reliant on food imports, potentially leading to food crises, inequality, and geopolitical conflicts on a global scale.
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
The Africa Risk Capacity initiative provides insurance against droughts and other climate-related shocks, enabling African governments to respond quickly to crises and preventing food shortages from spiralling into full-blown humanitarian disasters.
The Sierra Leone Telegraph
The world's most pressing environmental, social and economic crises - biodiversity loss, water and food insecurity, health risks and climate change - all interact, cascade and compound each other in ways that make separate efforts to address them ineffective and counterproductive.
Sustainable Brands
Last updated: 19 June 2026
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