In the current period (March to April 2025), an estimated 12.6 million people (27 percent of the total population of 46 million people) faced high levels of acute food insecurity classified in IPC Phase 3 and above (Crisis or worse) and are in urgent need of humanitarian food assistance. Of these, a [...]

Afghanistan continues to experience marginal improvement in the food security situation since 2021, despite facing a series of significant challenges over the past few years. These include the political transition in August 2021, impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and multiple natural disasters like [...]

Nearly 3.5 million children, aged 6 to 59 months, are suffering or projected to suffer acute malnutrition between June 2024 and May 2025 and require urgent interventions. This includes 867,300 cases of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) and almost 2.6 million cases of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM). [...]

Afghanistan continues to experience marginal improvements in food security since the large degradation in the situation following the political transition of 2021. Nonetheless, over a third of Afghanistan’s population (14.2 million people) are still experiencing high levels of acute food insecurit [...]

Afghanistan’s economy remains exceedingly fragile, and the food insecurity remains alarmingly high. In October 2023, during the post-harvest season, approximately 13.1 million people, accounting for 29 percent of the total population faced high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above [...]

Around 17.2 million Afghans (40 per cent) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phase 3 or 4) in April 2023. This includes nearly 3.4 million people (around 8 per cent) experiencing Emergency (IPC Phase 4) levels of food insecurity. Between May [...]

An estimated 4 million children and women in Afghanistan are likely suffering from acute malnutrition through April 2023 and need urgent malnutrition intervention. The latest IPC Acute Malnutrition Analysis projection shows that 875,224 children will suffer/are likely suffering from Severe Acute Mal [...]

In September and October 2022 (during post-harvest season), an estimated 11 percent of the national population, or about 4.4 million people, experienced Emergency (IPC Phase 4) food insecurity, and 30 percent of the national population, or about 12.6 million people, experienced Crisis (IPC Phase 3) [...]

High acute food insecurity persists across Afghanistan, as a combination of a collapsing economy and drought is depriving nearly 20 million Afghans of food, classified in Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phases 3 or 4), between March and May 2022 (the lean season), latest data shows. Among these are about 6 [...]

Afghanistan’s protracted food crisis has deepened and widened with a record high of nearly 19 million people experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in Crisis or Emergency (IPC Phases 3 or 4), between September and October 2021, due to a devastating combination of drought, [...]