More than one-fifth of the analysed population in Pakistan is facing high levels of acute food insecurity due to the residual impacts of the 2025 monsoon floods, prolonged drought and dry spells, and localised insecurity. Approximately 7.5 million people (21 percent of the analysed population) are c [...]

Rates of acute malnutrition for vulnerable populations are concerning across 45 rural districts in Pakistan’s Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces. The situation is driven primarily by seasonal diseases, inadequate feeding and caring practices, poor child dietary diversity, limited [...]

Between November 2024 and March 2025, approximately 11 million people in Pakistan’s rural population (22 percent of the analyzed population) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above. This includes 1.7 million people (3 percent of the population anal [...]

Approximately 8.6 million people (24 percent of the analysed population) in parts of Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan are facing high levels of acute food insecurity between March to June 2024 with 1.6 million people in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) and 7 million people in IPC Phase [...]

The latest acute malnutrition (AMN) analysis by the IPC has found that 2.14 million children in parts of Pakistan are suffering acute malnutrition. The analysis conducted in 32 districts of Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces indicates that 23 districts are classified in IPC AMN Phas [...]

Nearly 10.5 million people (29 percent of the population analysed) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April to October 2023. Approximately 2.1 million people (6 percent of the analysed population) will be in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency), and around 8.4 mi [...]

In this IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis, 12 rural districts of Balochistan, seven rural districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and nine rural districts of Sindh were analysed, amounting to around 9.2% of Pakistan’s population. Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh are three provinces in Pakistan, [...]

In this IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis, nine rural districts of Balochistan, seven rural districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and nine rural districts of Sindh were analysed, amounting to around 8.6% of Pakistan’s population. Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh are three provinces in Pakista [...]

How Severe, How Many and When: According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Acute Malnutrition (IPC AMN) analysis, of the nine districts analysed in Sindh, Pakistan, acute malnutrition is at a Critical level (IPC Phase 4) in eight districts and at a Serious level (IPC Phase [...]

Balochistan and Sindh are two of Pakistan’s provinces having the highest prevalence of food insecurity, malnutrition and poverty. In 2020, the population faced multiple shocks including high food prices, locust outbreaks, rains/flooding/snowfall/drought, all exacerbated by the impacts of the COVID [...]