Conflict and violence were the causes of most of the acute hunger in 2025, affecting nearly 150 million people. Displaced Palestinians struggle to receive donated food for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip, on February 18, 2026 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP] Famine was confirmed in two places in 2025 – areas of the Gaza Strip and Sudan – the first such dual confirmation since formal f