Afghanistan Hunger Crisis Intensifies As Millions Left Without Food Aid4 August 2026Key points14 million Afghans face acute hunger, with only one in nine receiving WFP food assistance. The agency needs $500 million before winter to avert a worsening humanitarian crisis. Conflict, widespread unemployment, soaring food prices, shrinking humanitarian funding and disruption to supply routes are fuelling the crisis, WFP said. “When we spoke to Farida, her baby started crying from hunger,” the WFP Country Director for Afghanistan said. But a sharp decline in humanitarian funding has forced the agency to prioritize food assistance to only a fraction of the most vulnerable.