The World Bank puts the number at nearly 50 million West and Central Africans, including Ghanaians, as being uncertain in terms of food during this year's lean season, June to August 2025. In the Food Security Update February 2025, the Bretton Institution quoted that food security was in the alarm category in most low-income countries, i.e., Africa. It further stated that climate change and conflict remained the leading causes of food insecurity.
Crop and export price indexes were higher since the previous update, ending 3% and 6% higher, respectively. The cereal price index ended even. As of the Feb 2025 release of the AMIS Market Monitor, international crop prices (wheat, maize, rice, and soybeans) stand at record lows from last year's levels, except for maize, which was at a 15-month high level because of a shortage of supply. The Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Price Monitoring and Analysis indicated that coarse grain prices experienced month-to-month varying trends in Sahel nations and Gulf of Guinea nations during December 2024 and January 2025 but coarse grain prices for most of the subregional nations were higher than the corresponding period last year. For example, Malian wholesale sorghum prices were usually 10 to 25% higher than last year's same month in January 2025, and millet was 15 to 45% higher, largely because of far-too-high transport fees, war disruption of the market, and the lack of the 2024 cereal crop production in most areas.
In Burkina Faso, wholesale sorghum and millet prices ranged from 55% higher than last year in most of the markets being monitored, with some whose annual jump in millet prices was even more drastic. 281 million globally experienced food insecurity in 2023 Despite 281 million being extremely food insecure in the world in 2023, assistance to food systems fell by 30% between 2023 and 2022. That is compared to a decade of aid, which rose by 56% since 2016.
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