URBANA, ILLINOIS – According to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025, a report recently released by the five leading United Nations agencies working on the issue, the number of people facing hunger globally declined from 688 million in 2023 to 673 million in 2024. But progress has not been equal, with Africa experiencing a slight increase in the number of undernourished people, from 296 million to 306 million. Worryingly, this pattern is set to continue: the report estimates that, even as global hunger declines, 512 million people will still be undernourished in 2030, nearly 60% of whom will be in Africa.