About the SOFI 2025 report

The 2025 edition of SOFI will be launched on Monday 28 July during the Second UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake (UNFSS+4) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The report will examine the challenges that rising food prices pose for achieving the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.1 and 2.2 targets of ending hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition by 2030. The report will also explore the drivers behind recent food inflation, its impact on food security and nutrition, and the policy responses necessary to prevent and mitigate these effects.

Since late 2020, as the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, the world has experienced considerable domestic food retail price increases. Consumer food price inflation has been notably higher than headline inflation, particularly in low-income countries (LICs), where households allocate a larger share of their income to food and where hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition challenges remain the most pressing challenges – as highlighted in previous editions of this report. It is particularly puzzling that, since 2022, while international food commodity prices have declined, as highlighted by FAO’s Food Price Index, domestic food prices have continued to rise.

The analysis presented in this report will enhance understanding of the drivers of food inflation, price trends among different food groups – particularly nutritious foods that are part of a healthy diet – and the effects that food inflation have on food security and nutrition. In addition, the report will provide critical policy recommendations to address the immediate needs of those facing heightened food insecurity and bearing the brunt of rising food costs, and to address the structural constraints and barriers that might be contributing to the persisting high levels of food prices, which hinder global efforts to eradicate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms, and to ensuring that everybody has access to affordable and healthy diet.