Global need continued to increase in fiscal year (FY) 2023, with more than 140 million people in the most vulnerable countries estimated to be acutely food insecure—more than double pre-pandemic levels—as populations worldwide coped with conflict, climate change, and economic shocks1. Protracted crises and conflict in places like Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen, and Haiti—as well as natural disasters including the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria and floods in Libya—left tens of millions of people facing food insecurity.
In FY 2023, the United States continued to lead the world in addressing hunger. Utilizing all humanitarian assistance tools and resources—from the provision of U.S. in-kind food assistance to meet emergency needs to programs that build communities’ resilience and reduce reliance on foreign assistance in the long term—the United States continued a legacy as the leading donor of humanitarian food assistance, and collaborator among donors, the private sector, and philanthropic institutions to meet global needs. In FY 2023, USAID provided more than $1.9 billion in Title II assistance, reaching more than 45 million people in 35 countries.
Combined with International Disaster Assistance (IDA)-funded Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP) assistance, and Development Assistance funds provided as Community Development Funds (CDF) by the Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security as part of its Feed the Future global hunger portfolio—and supported by generous supplemental appropriations from Congress—USAID implemented more than $5 billion in humanitarian food assistance and related activities in FY 2023 and reached a total of 134 million people in 61 countries.
