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The world just harvested record grain and still set a record for acute hunger. The food exists. In much of the world it is simply priced out of the household basket, and a climate shock becomes a crisis only where the buffers underneath a country are thin.

With a strong El Niño now developing and most of the 2026 crop already in the ground, the heaviest impacts are likely to land in 2027. That leaves a window to act, and it is closing.

Helios AI is releasing its Hunger Exposure Index alongside this session, with district-level disruption data and a country-level exposure ranking. Panelists from IFPRI and FAO bring the research record, the transmission mechanism and the financing architecture that can turn a forecast into a decision.

**What we'll cover**

*   Why record production and record hunger coexist, and how to resolve the paradox
*   Which countries can absorb the next shock and which cannot
*   What a strong El Niño does to pre-existing stress, and why 2027 is the loud year
*   What anticipatory action requires when exposure is knowable months in advance
