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WFP Warns 40% Funding Drop Could Push 13.7 Million Toward Extreme Hunger

The UN agency says donor retrenchment, including recent U.S. aid cuts, is already forcing deep program reductions.

Un logo de l'Usaid sur un carton au milieu de restes éparpillés de boîtes et de matériaux abandonnés après des actes de vandalisme et de pillages à l'entrepôt du Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) à Bukavu, le 21 février 2025 en RDC
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Le PAM alerte sur la faim dans le monde qui atteint des niveaux records
Le PAM estime que coupes dans les financements de l'aide humanitaire risquent d'exposer jusqu'à 13,7 millions de personnes à des niveaux de faim extrêmes à l'échelle mondiale

Overview

  • WFP projects a 2025 budget of $6.4 billion, down from $10 billion in 2024, reflecting an anticipated 40% fall in contributions.
  • Operations in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan are facing major disruptions that the agency expects to worsen.
  • This month in the DRC, planned food assistance was reduced from 2.3 million people to 600,000, and costly airdrops in South Sudan are at risk due to funding constraints.
  • Funding gaps could push 10.5 to 13.7 million people from IPC phase 3 (crisis) into IPC phase 4 (emergency), according to the WFP.
  • The report cites record acute food insecurity—319 million affected, including 44 million in IPC 4, with 1.4 million in famine or near-famine—and references a Lancet analysis projecting up to 14 million additional deaths by 2030 from U.S. aid cuts.