2008 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWelthungerhilfeen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationConcern Worldwideen
cg.creator.identifierKlaus von Grebmer: 0000-0002-6908-5773
cg.creator.identifierHeidi Fritschel: 0000-0002-3591-000X
cg.creator.identifierTolulope Olofinbiyi: 0000-0002-1269-4041
cg.creator.identifierRajul Pandya-Lorch: 0000-0003-3552-7382
cg.creator.identifierYisehac Yohannes: 0000-0001-7932-1816
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Director General's Office
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Communications and Knowledge Management
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorvon Grebmer, Klausen
dc.contributor.authorFritschel, Heidien
dc.contributor.authorNestorova, Bellaen
dc.contributor.authorOlofinbiyi, Tolulopeen
dc.contributor.authorPandya-Lorch, Rajulen
dc.contributor.authorYohannes, Yisehacen
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-05T20:33:41Zen
dc.date.available2024-11-05T20:33:41Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/159277
dc.title2008 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hungeren
dcterms.abstractThe 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the world has made slow progress in reducing food insecurity since 1990, with dramatic differences among regions and countries. In the nearly two decades since 1990, some regions - South and Southeast Asia, the Near East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean - have made significant headway in improving food security. Nevertheless, the GHI remains high in South Asia. The GHI is similarly high in Sub-Saharan Africa, where progress has been marginal since 1990. The GHI level in the world as a whole remains serious. The countries with the most worrisome hunger status and the highest 2008 GHI scores are predominantly in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Burundi, Niger, and Sierra Leone at the bottom of the list. Several dozen countries in various regions have GHI scores categorized as low. Hunger is closely tied to poverty, and countries with high levels of hunger are overwhelmingly low- or low-middle-income countries. Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are the regions with the highest GHI scores and the highest poverty rates. The recent advent of higher food prices has uneven effects across countries, depending on a range of factors, including whether countries are net importers or exporters of food. Among the countries for which the GHI is calculated, net cereal importers, for example, greatly outnumber exporters, implying that many more countries combating hunger are likely to suffer from higher prices than benefit from them. Higher food prices have also caused violent and nonviolent protests in dozens of countries. In this context of higher food prices, prospects for improving food and nutrition security do not appear favorable, given that at least 800 million people were food insecure even before the food price crisis hit. Higher food prices cut into poor households' food budgets, with particularly serious risks for undernourished infants and children. High prices also reduce the amount of food aid that donors can supply with a given amount of funds.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.audienceGeneral Publicen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationvon Grebmer, Klaus; Fritschel, Heidi; Nestorova, Bella; Olofinbiyi, Tolulope; Pandya-Lorch, Rajul; Yohannes, Yisehac. 2008. 2008 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159277en
dcterms.extent41 p.en
dcterms.issued2008
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dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.publisherWelthungerhilfeen
dcterms.publisherConcern Worldwideen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/13975en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/14020en
dcterms.subjecthungeren
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectmalnutritionen
dcterms.subjectevaluationen
dcterms.subjectindicatorsen
dcterms.typeBook

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