Around the world, more than 45 million children under the age of five experience acute malnutrition annually. Between one and two million will die as a result.

Climatic shocks have created a devastating food insecurity crisis across East Africa. Over the last few years, the dangerous combination of prolonged drought and flooding has led to soaring levels of severe malnutrition, especially among children.

When Amina Umaru Toko, 53, was displaced to Gwoza, Nigeria, due to violence and insecurity, she didn’t expect to also be suddenly caring for her critically ill grandchild.

The current process for treating children with acute malnutrition isn’t working. Over 50 million children suffer from acute malnutrition every year and 80 percent of them don’t have access to treatment.

Learn about the basic causes of malnutrition, the challenging contexts of conflict and climate, and how the IRC is finding sustainable ways to end child hunger in northeast Nigeria.

The story of a young boy's miraculous recovery from malnutrition in Niger.

Mia Farrow recently visited Chad, a country in central Africa where conflict and climate change are making it hard for families to get enough food.

An alarming estimate of 15.3 million people in Afghanistan were facing food insecurity in 2023. Today, starvation could likely kill more Afghans than the last twenty years of war have.