By Siena Cicarelli and Erin Sikorsky

Deep funding cuts and political shifts in the United States, along with other multilateral actors turning inward, have weakened investment in climate security and migration governance. At the same time, accelerating climate impacts are undermining crop yields, shifting growing seasons, and destabilizing food supply chains, especially in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. These pressures are fueling hunger, malnutrition, and displacement, with 64.3 million people internally displaced in food crisis contexts in 2023 and 123.2 million people forcibly displaced worldwide in 2024.