According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), global hunger eased for the third consecutive year in 2025. But cuts to development aid, combined with crises such as the war in Iran, are putting global food security under more pressure. Major donors pull out Never before has the global development aid budget shrunk as sharply as it did in 2025. The Global Food Crisis Is the global food system on the brink of collapse? Having spent more than five decades researching the global food system, he described the current situation as unprecedented.