Around the world, more than 45 million children under the age of five experience acute malnutrition annually. Between one and two million will die as a result.

The current process for treating children with acute malnutrition isn’t working. Over 50 million children suffer from acute malnutrition every year and 80 percent of them don’t have access to treatment.

Learn about the basic causes of malnutrition, the challenging contexts of conflict and climate, and how the IRC is finding sustainable ways to end child hunger in northeast Nigeria.

The story of a young boy's miraculous recovery from malnutrition in Niger.

For the EU to effectively tackle humanitarian crises, climate action and malnutrition must be at the top of its agenda and it must opt for proven solutions.

Mia Farrow recently visited Chad, a country in central Africa where conflict and climate change are making it hard for families to get enough food.

An alarming estimate of 15.3 million people in Afghanistan were facing food insecurity in 2023. Today, starvation could likely kill more Afghans than the last twenty years of war have.

Amidst protracted conflict and economic challenges that have left the healthcare system on the verge of collapse, the IRC's EU-funded mobile medical teams provide respite to struggling displaced families.