Food Price Shocks
Price spikes push tens of millions into hunger faster than any drought.
Severity score
52.3
Severe · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Conflict, export bans, fertiliser costs and extreme weather have produced repeated food price shocks. Import-dependent countries and urban poor households absorb the impact almost immediately, and the political consequences follow within months.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
44Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
84People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
62Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
6Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
48Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.