Source
https://data.unhcr.org/en/documents/download/108156 — original source (opens in a new tab; the file is not redistributed)
Context: thesis · Thesis background (SQ1 demand / community-resilience motivation) · not an NI model input
Summary
The Global Report on Food Crises 2024 (GRFC 2024) is the eighth annual consensus assessment of acute food insecurity worldwide, produced by the Food Security Information Network for the Global Network Against Food Crises (a partnership of 16 agencies including FAO, WFP and UNICEF, with EU funding). Using the IPC/CH classification, it quantifies how many people faced Crisis-or-worse hunger in 2023, decomposes the drivers (conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks), and flags the outlook for 2024. For the thesis it supplies the macro-scale demand and vulnerability context: it shows the scale of populations whose livelihoods depend on subsistence agriculture and are exposed to compounding shocks, which underpins the case for community-level food self-sufficiency and resilience. It is thesis background only, not a Neobiome Intelligence model input.
Key claims
- claim: "'In 2023, 281.6 million people or 21.5 percent of the analysed population faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 59 food-crisis countries/territories.' [verified verbatim]"
source_location: "Key findings, p.ix (opening statement)."
- claim: "'Nearly 24M more people faced high levels of acute food insecurity than in 2022 - explained by expanded analysis coverage as well as deteriorating acute food insecurity in some countries/territories outweighing improvements in others.' [verified verbatim]"
source_location: "Key findings, p.ix (magnitude/change)."
- claim: "IPC/CH phase breakdown of high acute food insecurity, 2023: 'Around 165.5M people in 41 countries/territories faced Crisis (IPC/CH Phase 3).'; 'Over 36M people in 39 countries/territories faced Emergency (IPC/CH Phase 4), with more than a third of them in the Sudan and Afghanistan.'; 'About 0.7M people - 0.6M of them in Palestine (Gaza Strip) - were projected to face Catastrophe (IPC/CH Phase 5) in five countries/territories in 2023.' [verified verbatim]"
source_location: "Key findings, p.ix (phase magnitudes + 'Populations projected to face Catastrophe' box)."
- claim: "Primary drivers of high acute food insecurity in 2023: 'Conflict/insecurity was the primary driver in 20 countries/territories with 135M people facing high levels of acute food insecurity.'; 'Weather extremes were the main driver for 18 countries with over 72M people facing high levels of acute food insecurity.'; 'Economic shocks were the main driver in 21 countries with over 75M people facing high levels of acute food insecurity.' [verified verbatim]"
source_location: "Key findings - Drivers of acute food insecurity, p.ix."
- claim: "'Estimates state that around 310 million people are employed in agriculture, fishing and forestry across the 59 GRFC 2024 countries/territories with data meeting GRFC requirements. They are at risk of entering the vicious cycle of seasonal hunger (FAO, 2023).' [verified verbatim]"
source_location: "Introduction (chronic vs acute food insecurity / livelihoods box), p.2-3."
- claim: "Long-run deterioration: 'In the 19 countries with disaggregated data across all editions of the GRFC, the share of the analysed population facing Crisis (IPC/CH Phase 3) increased from 10 percent in 2016 to 18 percent in 2023. This corresponds to a more than threefold increase in the number of people in this phase since 2016, noting a 59 percent larger analysis coverage between 2016 and 2023.' [verified verbatim]"
source_location: "Chapter 1, A global overview of food crises - 'Acute food insecurity since 2016'."NI relevance
None direct. The engine is calibrated on NZ-specific data; GRFC’s global crisis figures do not feed any model cell. Its value is thesis-facing: it anchors the demand/vulnerability argument (why remote-community food self-sufficiency and resilience matter) at macro scale, and it names the shock drivers (conflict, weather extremes, economic shocks) the self-sufficiency case responds to.
Research targets
None. GRFC 2024 is a complete authoritative report; nothing further to retrieve.
Notes
- Authoritative multi-agency consensus report (FSIN Secretariat for the 16-partner Global Network Against Food Crises, EU-funded);
data_quality: high. - Figures verified verbatim via
pdftotext -layout; quotes carry exact page/section locations. “High levels of acute food insecurity” = IPC/CH Phase 3 or above. - Canonical citation link: https://www.fsinplatform.org/grfc2024 (report’s own required-citation URL). Raw retrieved from the UNHCR data portal mirror (document 108156); both are public.