This report presents the latest estimates on food insecurity, hunger and malnutrition at the global and regional levels. It signals that significant challenges remain in the fight against food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms.

This report launches an urgent appeal to accelerate and scale up actions to strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity in the face of changing climate variability and increasing extremes. National and local governments are facing challenges in trying to determine measures to prevent risk and address the effects of these stressors.

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition 2016–2025 call on all countries and stakeholders to act together to end hunger and prevent all forms of malnutrition by 2030. This year’s edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World marks the beginning of a regular...