Adolescents, Hunger, and Conflict: Voices and Key Figures Across Lebanon – Advocacy Brief

Lebanon’s adolescents are navigating a period of heightened food insecurity, marked by rising food prices, limited employment opportunities, and declining humanitarian assistance (WFP 2025; World Bank 2025; WFP 2024/2025). This brief presents preliminary findings from World Vision’s Price Shocks 2025 study, highlighting how hunger affects adolescents physically, mentally, and socially, and the difficult choices they make when food is insufficient.

Data were collected through 402 surveys with adolescents aged 10–19, capturing the frequency, duration, and impact of hunger, alongside 14 focus group discussions and 33 key informant interviews, which provided qualitative depth on their lived experiences. The study translates adolescents’ voices into actionable insights for World Food Day 2025, aiming to protect health and dignity while reducing reliance on harmful coping strategies.

The findings illustrate the daily realities of hunger for Lebanon’s youth, showing how conflict and shrinking aid exacerbate pressures on adolescents and their families, highlighting urgent areas for support and intervention.