According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s most recent study, Pakistan had high levels of food insecurity from November 2024 to March 2025, with 11 million people expected to face insecurity
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) 2025 Global Report on Food Crises, which was released by the UN on Friday, 11 million people, or 22% of the analysed population, are expected to face acute food insecurity in 68 rural districts affected by flooding in Balochistan, Sindh, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
This includes 1.7 million people in emergency. The population coverage increased by 38 per cent between the 2024 peak and 2025 current analysis, from 36.7 million people to 50.8 million people, with 25 additional districts, making the 2024 peak and the projection for 2025 not comparable
It further added that extreme weather conditions would affect livelihoods of people despite there being a recovery in the situation with respect to last year.
The peak for 2024 in Pakistan remained the same as in 2023, with 11.8 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity between November 2023 and January 2024, the report mentioned.
