Source: United Nations (video statements)
Jean Martin Bauer, World Food Programme (WFP), Director of Food Security and Nutrition Analysis, briefed on HungerMap Live.
World Food Programme (WFP) released today (19 Apr), HungerMap Live; a modernized intelligence platform that turns data on global hunger into early action.
WFP’s next-generation platform is a powerful digital monitoring and intelligence capability that integrates a wide range of food security data and analysis with predictive modelling to help fight hunger in more than 50 countries.
At a time of rising food security needs and limited funding for humanitarian action, HungerMap Live provides the most complete and updated picture of hunger in the world’s most vulnerable countries.
HungerMap Live offers AI-assisted forecasting capabilities of projected food needs in WFP designated Hunger Hotspots – 16 countries with populations already struggling with catastrophic hunger.
Studies have shown that early warning of emerging food security issues can reap tremendous cost savings and operational efficiencies.
In fact, WFP has seen first-hand that every dollar invested in its anticipatory action programs, reaps a minimum of seven dollars in savings.
The release of the platform comes at a critical time when the number of people facing IPC5 food insecurity – the most severe form of hunger – has increased 15-fold from 85,000 in 2019 to 1.4m in 2025.
The newly modernized HungerMap Live platform brings together data from WFP’s extensive network of more than 300 analysts working on food security monitoring and mapping with information from dozens of trusted partners.
This includes the global benchmark for food insecurity data (known as IPC), government validated statistics, climate, market, agricultural and economic data.
Through predictive modelling, provided with the support of Google, HungerMap Live answers three critical questions: what is the current state of food security across the world? Which countries and regions require urgent attention? And what are the underlying factors contributing to food security needs?
This platform combines WFP’s on-the-ground insights with critical data to give decisionmakers, communities, humanitarian agencies and donors, the power to act before hunger costs lives.