2015 Global Hunger Index

Author : von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,de Waal, Alex,Prasai, Nilam,Yin, Sandra,Yohannes, Yisehac
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896299641

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2015 Global Hunger Index by von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,de Waal, Alex,Prasai, Nilam,Yin, Sandra,Yohannes, Yisehac Pdf

The developing world has made progress in reducing hunger since 2000. The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that the level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 27 percent. Yet the state of hunger in the world remains serious. This marks the tenth year that IFPRI has assessed global hunger using this multidimensional measure. This report’s GHI scores are based on a new, improved formula that replaces the child underweight indicator of previous years with child stunting and child wasting. This change reflects the latest thinking on the most suitable indicators for child undernutrition, one of three dimensions of hunger reflected in the GHI formula. Across regions and countries, GHI scores vary considerably. Regionally, the highest GHI scores, and therefore the highest hunger levels, are still found in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia. Despite achieving the largest absolute improvements since 2000, these two regions still suffer from serious levels of hunger. Levels of hunger are alarming or serious in 52 countries. Most of the eight countries with alarming GHI scores are in Africa south of the Sahara. While no countries are classified in the extremely alarming category this year, this high level of hunger could still exist. Due to insufficient data, 2015 GHI scores could not be calculated for places that recently suffered from high levels of hunger, including Burundi, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan. 2015 Global Hunger Index Interactive App: http://ghi.ifpri.org

Author : von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,de Waal, Alex,Prasai, Nilam,Yin, Sandra,Yohannes, Yisehac
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896298767

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Synopsis: 2015 Global hunger index: Armed conflict and the challenge of hunger by von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,de Waal, Alex,Prasai, Nilam,Yin, Sandra,Yohannes, Yisehac Pdf

The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the tenth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made progress in reducing hunger since 2000, but still has a long way to go, with levels of hunger still serious or alarming in 52 countries. The theme of this year’s report is armed conflict and the challenge of hunger. Conflict and hunger are closely associated. Indeed, conflict is the main cause of persistent severe hunger, and countries with the lowest levels of food security are often engaged in or recently emerged from war. Although conflict and hunger often travel hand in hand, history has shown that hunger need not result from conflict. 2015 Global Hunger Index Interactive App: http://ghi.ifpri.org

Author : Saltzman, Amy,Birol, Ekin,Wiesman, Doris,Prasai, Nilam,Yohannes, Yisehac,Menon, Purnima,Thompson, Jennifer
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896299580

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2014 Global Hunger Index by Saltzman, Amy,Birol, Ekin,Wiesman, Doris,Prasai, Nilam,Yohannes, Yisehac,Menon, Purnima,Thompson, Jennifer Pdf

With one more year before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the 2014 Global Hunger Index report offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The state of hunger in developing countries as a group has improved since 1990, falling by 39 percent, according to the 2014 GHI. Despite progress made, the level of hunger in the world is still “serious,” with 805 million people continuing to go hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The global average obscures dramatic differences across regions and countries. Regionally, the highest GHI scores—and therefore the highest hunger levels—are in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia, which have also experienced the greatest absolute improvements since 2005. South Asia saw the steepest absolute decline in GHI scores since 1990. Progress in addressing child underweight was the main factor behind the improved GHI score for the region since 1990.

Author : Klaus von Grebmer,Jill Bernstein,Nilam Prasai,Alex de Waal,Sandra Yin,Yisehac Yohannes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896299694

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2015 Global Hunger Index by Klaus von Grebmer,Jill Bernstein,Nilam Prasai,Alex de Waal,Sandra Yin,Yisehac Yohannes Pdf

Author : von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,Nabarro, David,Prasai, Nilam,Amin, Shazia,Yohannes, Yisehac,Sonntag, Andrea,Patterson, Fraser,Towey, Olive,Thompson, Jennifer
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896292260

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2016 Global hunger index by von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,Nabarro, David,Prasai, Nilam,Amin, Shazia,Yohannes, Yisehac,Sonntag, Andrea,Patterson, Fraser,Towey, Olive,Thompson, Jennifer Pdf

The 2016 Global Hunger Index (GHI) presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger, focusing on how the world can get to Zero Hunger by 2030. The developing world has made substantial progress in reducing hunger since 2000. The 2016 GHI shows that the level of hunger in developing countries as a group has fallen by 29 percent. Yet this progress has been uneven, and great disparities in hunger continue to exist at the regional, national, and subnational levels. Levels of hunger are still serious or alarming in 50 countries. The highest hunger levels are still found in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia. Although GHI scores for these two regions have declined over time, the current levels remain close to the alarming category. Africa south of the Sahara has achieved the largest absolute improvement since 2000 and South Asia has also seen a sizable reduction—but the decline in hunger must accelerate in these regions if the world is to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. The 2016 report, with an essay from United Nations Special Adviser David Nabarro, hails the new paradigm of international development proposed in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which envisages Zero Hunger by 2030, as one goal among 17, in a holistic, integrated, and transformative plan for the world. To get to Zero Hunger while leaving no one behind, the 2016 GHI highlights the importance of identifying the regions, countries, and populations that are most vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition so progress can be accelerated there.

Author : Laborde Debucquet, David,Majeed, Fahd,Tokgoz, Simla,Torero, Máximo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Long-term drivers of food and nutrition security by Laborde Debucquet, David,Majeed, Fahd,Tokgoz, Simla,Torero, Máximo Pdf

The 2015 Global Hunger Index suggests that despite progress in reducing hunger worldwide, hunger levels in 52 of 117 countries in the 2015 Global Hunger Index remain “serious” or “alarming.” Since achieving and maintaining food and nutrition security (FNS) remains a goal for all countries, it is important to understand the individual, national, and global factors that affect FNS. This paper proposes an analytical framework to identify and analyze the respective roles of key long-term drivers of FNS. We start by identifying what the key variables affecting FNS are at the household and country level, and then we continue by defining what the main exogenous or endogenous drivers affecting these variables are. We discuss the key drivers of both aggregated food supply and demand and therefore their impact on prices. Specifically, for aggregated food demand, we discuss demographic factors, income growth, changes in dietary preferences, aggregated domestic distortions, and overall quality of the food system. With respect to the drivers of aggregated food supply, we discuss land available for food products and the drivers behind land availability, the share of waste/losses generated by the food system, and the normalized average yield. We define yield as the amount of nutrients produced by unit of land. It depends both on the physical yield of the crop or the livestock and on the quality of the food produced. It also can be affected by the changes in production patterns linked to the different dietary patterns of the consumers and by climate change. We emphasize the fact that in many cases, key drivers may have ambiguous effects on the FNS situation of different agents. For instance, more liberal trade policies will affect real income, terms of trade, demand and supply, returns of factors, foreign direct investments, and food prices and thus may lead to the improvement of the global-level FNS, that is, the FNS of the majority of the population. At the same time, more liberal trade policies may bring food insecurity to some households. Therefore, careful quantitative assessment is needed for each policy option. Finally, we propose a typology of variables that will help modelers adapt their models to study the different drivers through both direct and indirect effects.

Author : Doris Wiesmann
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A global hunger index: measurement concept, ranking of countries, and trends by Doris Wiesmann Pdf

Author : Sandra Yin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0896298809

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Synopsis by Sandra Yin Pdf

Author : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896292987

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2018 Global food policy report: Synopsis by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Pdf

The year 2017 was marked by increasing uncertainty amid mixed signs of progress. The world enjoyed a strong economic recovery, but global hunger increased as conflicts, famine, and refugee crises persisted. With the withdrawal of the United States from major international agreements, Britain's “Brexit,” and rising anti-immigration rhetoric in many countries, the world began to step away from decades of global integration that have yielded unprecedented reductions in poverty and malnutrition. This synopsis of the 2018 Global Food Policy Report reviews the events of 2017, including the impact of rising antiglobalism, and looks at how global integration—through trade, investment, migration, open data, developed country policies, and governance—can be harnessed to benefit our global food system.

Author : Per Pinstrup-Andersen,Ebbe Schiøler
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195664904

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Seeds of Contention by Per Pinstrup-Andersen,Ebbe Schiøler Pdf

In recent years the media have reported on the increasing use of genetically modified crops in agriculture. This text focuses attention on the less discussed issues of the potential benefits of genetically modified crops for developing countries.

Author : von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,Hossain, Naomi,Brown, Tracy,Prasai, Nilam,Yohannes, Yisehac,Patterson, Fraser,Sonntag, Andrea,Zimmerman, Sophia-Maria,Towey, Olive,Foley, Connell
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896292710

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2017 global hunger index: The inequalities of hunger by von Grebmer, Klaus,Bernstein, Jill,Hossain, Naomi,Brown, Tracy,Prasai, Nilam,Yohannes, Yisehac,Patterson, Fraser,Sonntag, Andrea,Zimmerman, Sophia-Maria,Towey, Olive,Foley, Connell Pdf

The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows long-term progress in reducing hunger in the world. The advances have been uneven, however, with millions of people still experiencing chronic hunger and many places suffering acute food crises and even famine. According to 2017 GHI scores, the level of hunger in the world has decreased by 27 percent from the 2000 level. Of the 119 countries assessed in this year’s report, one falls in the extremely alarming range on the GHI Severity Scale; 7 fall in the alarming range; 44 in the serious range; and 24 in the moderate range. Only 43 countries have scores in the low range. In addition, 9 of the 13 countries that lack sufficient data for calculating 2017 GHI scores still raise significant concern, including Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria. To capture the multidimensional nature of hunger, GHI scores are based on four component indicators—undernourishment, child wasting, child stunting, and child mortality. The 27 percent improvement noted above reflects progress in each of these indicators according to the latest data from 2012–2016 for countries in the GHI.

Author : Avula, Rasmi, ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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POSHAN’s abstract digest on maternal and child nutrition research - Issue 34 by Avula, Rasmi, ed. Pdf

This issue of Abstract Digest comes to you at a time when the global nutrition research community is actively looking for ways to address malnutrition in the changing context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The articles in this issue include a modelling study by Roberton and colleagues on early estimates of the indirect effects of COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, and comments on it.

Author : Klaus von Grebmer,Klaus von Grebmer, Claudia Ringler, Mark W. Rosegrant, Tolulope Olofinbiyi, Doris Wiesmann, Heidi Fritschel, Ousmane Badiane, Maximo Torero, Yisehac Yohannes, Jennifer Thompson, Constanze von Oppeln, Joseph Rahall,Claudia Ringler,Mark Rosegrant,Tolulope Olofinbiyi,Doris Wiesmann,Heidi Fritschel,Ousmane Badiane,Maximo Torero,Yisehac Yohannes,Jennifer Thompson,Constanze von Oppeln,Joseph Rahall
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0896299473

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2012 Global Hunger Index by Klaus von Grebmer,Klaus von Grebmer, Claudia Ringler, Mark W. Rosegrant, Tolulope Olofinbiyi, Doris Wiesmann, Heidi Fritschel, Ousmane Badiane, Maximo Torero, Yisehac Yohannes, Jennifer Thompson, Constanze von Oppeln, Joseph Rahall,Claudia Ringler,Mark Rosegrant,Tolulope Olofinbiyi,Doris Wiesmann,Heidi Fritschel,Ousmane Badiane,Maximo Torero,Yisehac Yohannes,Jennifer Thompson,Constanze von Oppeln,Joseph Rahall Pdf

The 2012 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report--the seventh in an annual series--presents a multidimensional measure of global, regional, and national hunger. It shows that progress in reducing the proportion of hungry people in the world has been tragically slow. According to the index, hunger on a global scale remains "serious." The 2012 GHI report also focuses particularly on how to ensure sustainable food security under conditions of land, water, and energy stress. The stark reality is that the world needs to produce more food with fewer resources, while eliminating wasteful practices and policies.

Author : Robinson, Sherman,Levy, Stephanie,Hernández, Victor,Davies, Rob,Gabriel, Sherwin,Arndt, Channing,van Seventer, Dirk,Pleitez, Marcelo
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Covid-19 and lockdown policies: A structural simulation model of a bottom-up recession in four countries by Robinson, Sherman,Levy, Stephanie,Hernández, Victor,Davies, Rob,Gabriel, Sherwin,Arndt, Channing,van Seventer, Dirk,Pleitez, Marcelo Pdf

This paper considers different approaches to modelling the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic/lockdown shocks. We review different modelling strategies and argue that, given the nature of the bottom-up recession caused by the pandemic/lockdowns, simulation models of the shocks should be based on a social accounting matrix (SAM) that includes both disaggregated sectoral data and the national accounts in a unified framework. SAM-based models have been widely used to analyze the impact of natural disasters, which are comparable to pandemic/lockdown shocks. The pandemic/lockdown shocks occurred rapidly, in weeks or months, not gradually over a year or more. In such a short period, adjustments through smooth changes in wages, prices and production methods are not plausible. Rather, initial adjustments occur through changes in quantities, altering demand and supply of commodities and employment in affected sectors. In this environment, we use a linear SAM-multiplier model that specifies a fixed-coefficient production technology, linear demand system, fixed savings rates, and fixed prices. There are three different kinds of sectoral shocks that are included in the model: (1) changes in demand due to household lockdown, (2) changes in supply due to industry lockdown, and (3) changes in demand due to induced macro shocks. At the detailed industry level, data are provided for all three shocks and the model imposes the largest of the three. We applied the model on a monthly time step for the period March to June 2020 for four countries: US, UK, Mexico, and South Africa. The models closely replicate observed macro results (GDP and employment) for the period. The results provide detailed structural information on the evolution of the different economies month-by-month and provide a framework for forward-looking scenario analysis. We also use the SAM-multiplier model to estimate the macro stimulus impacts of policies to support affected households. The model focuses attention on the structural features of the economy that define the multiplier process (who gets the additional income and what do they do with it) and provides a more nuanced analysis of the stimulus impact of income support programs than can be done with aggregated macro models.

Author : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896298873

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Synopsis: Global Nutrition Report 2015 by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Pdf

As we move into the post-2015 era of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world faces many seemingly intractable problems. Malnutrition should not be one of them. Countries that are determined to make rapid advances in malnutrition reduction can do so, and the incentives to improve nutrition are strong. Good nutrition provides a vital foundation for human development, central to meeting our full potential. When nutrition status improves, it leads to a host of positive outcomes for individuals and families. Many more children will live to see their fifth birthdays, their growth will be less disrupted, and they will gain in height and weight. They will learn more in school because their brain function is not impaired. As a result of this positive early environment, as adults they will have better jobs and get ill less often. Older adults will age more healthily and live longer.