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

Over 22 million people across Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya—about half of them children—are at risk of famine. But what is famine and how do we prevent it?

Across the world, hunger crises are disproportionately impacting children. Learn why children are especially vulnerable to famine and what the IRC is doing to help.