The UN World Food Programme (WFP) released on Thursday a new Artificial Intelligence-assisted platform, HungerMap Live, designed to monitor global famine crises and provide an advanced warning system to help prevent and combat hunger.

HungerMap Live is regarded as the first evidence-based warning system that alerts the world about emerging hunger conditions in advance, providing for responses to malnutrition and food insecurity but also prevention. The platform consists of a digital monitoring and intelligence site that brings together food security data from more than 300 analysts, including government statistics, the hunger classification index known as IPC, and agricultural and economic data, with predictive modeling to provide the most complete and up-to-date picture of global hunger.

According to the WFP’s director of food security and nutrition analysis, the platform allows policymakers, journalists, and students to monitor the progression of food insecurity worldwide. The WFP stressed that the use of AI-powered analytics in combination with predictive modeling enables the provision of more effective and lower-cost responses to severe hunger crises and rising famine risks, especially as funding for global food security programs and humanitarian aid declines.

The release of the platform comes at a time when many countries across the world are struggling with acute food insecurity due to armed conflicts and climate-related disasters. Various UN agencies have previously warned that hunger crises continue to surge globally, with nearly 318 million people experiencing hunger while humanitarian organisations struggle to provide support due to funding cuts.

In January 2026, the WFP reported that its program in Nigeria faces the risk of suspension due to money shortfalls, placing 35 million people in the country at risk of acute food insecurity. Additionally, the WFP has also warned that Somalia is experiencing a steep rise in hunger levels, with children facing the risk of malnutrition. In March 2026, the same organization cautioned that escalating hostilities in the Middle East could lead to mass food insecurity across the region, urging the international community to provide a well-funded humanitarian response.