Between January and March 2025, which coincides with the harvest period, nearly 1.2 million people (10 percent of the total population analysed) are projected to be in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis). This is a marked improvement from the current period (November to December 2024), where 1.9 million people wer [...]

An estimated 484,490 children aged 6-59 months are suffering or expected to suffer elevated levels of acute malnutrition between June 2024 and May 2025 – a figure that has more than doubled compared to the last IPC AMN analysis of 2022. This total includes 84,985 cases of Severe Acute Malnutrition [...]

Nearly 1.2 million people in Burundi are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity between June and September 2024 (harvest season), including 122,000 people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) and one million people in Crisis (IPC Phase 3). The situation is slightly improved from the current per [...]

In the current analysis period of September 2023 – coinciding with the harvest and post-harvest periods or "Impeshi" growing season – 1.52 million people, or 12 percent of the total population (rural) analysed, continued to face high acute food insecurity and were classified in IPC Phase 3 or ab [...]

The current analysis period, from April to May 2023, coincides with the lean season, marked by a reduction in the availability of food resources both in households and on the markets, with a tendency for food prices to rise. For this period, 2.3 million people (19 percent of the total population ana [...]

The current period of analysis, from June to September 2022, coincides with the harvest and post-harvest period of the main growing season marked by a relatively good food availability and accessibility. For this period, approximately 1.2 million people are in high acute food insecurity (IPC Phases [...]

For the period from June to September 2022, all the districts in Burundi are in an Acceptable nutritional situation (IPC Phase 1). The nutritional situation will deteriorate slightly between October 2022 and February 2023, with more than 20 districts falling into IPC Phase 2 (Alert). In total, it [...]

The current analysis period coincides with the small lean period from April to May, between the two main harvests of Burundi’s crop seasons A and B. Thus, over the current analysis period (April-May 2022), 1.18 million people (10%) are classified as in Crisis (IPC Phase 3 or above), and 3.1 millio [...]

How Many and When? The current analysis period of June to September 2021 coincides with the harvest and post-harvest period marked by relatively good food availability: for this period, over 1 million people (9% of the analysed population) are classified in Crisis (IPC Phase 3), while over 4 million [...]

Between April to May 2021, coinciding with the lean season, over 1 million people in Burundi experienced high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in Crisis or worse (IPC Phase 3 or above), due to flooding, economic decline and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic. These include about 107,000 [...]