The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 was jointly prepared by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO). The theme of this year’s report focuses on the financing to achieve SDG Targets 2.1 and 2.2 – financing to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms.

The reportis divided into 5 chapters. Chapter 1 provides the latest estimates of food security and various nutrition indicators around the world. Chapter 2 tries to answer urgent questions related to the current state of financing to achieve food security and address all forms of malnutrition. Chapter 3 explores the reasons for these discrepancies and proposes a new definition and methodology for measuring financing for food security and nutrition. Chapter 4 provides estimates of the current levels of financing for food security and nutrition and outlines the financing gap to achieve SDG Targets 2.1 and 2.2. Chapter 5 takes a deep dive into the options for innovative and synergetic scalable financing based on a typology of countries defined by their food security and nutrition situation and ability to obtain financing.

The full report can be downloaded here.