Global Hunger Index 2010 Launch Des Moines

African Proverb
The hunger of one …
… is the shame of all!

Marie Ruel
IFPRI
October 14, 2010
Des Moines, Iowa

Why a Global Hunger Index?
Raise awareness of regional and country differences in hunger
Help learnfrom successes and failures in hunger reduction
Provide incentives to act and improve international ranking
Focus on one special hunger-related topic every year
Targeted to policymakers, donors, media, public

GHI measures three dimensions of hunger
Undernourishment:(% population with insufficient food/calories)
Child malnutrition (% < 5 underweight)
Child mortality (<5 years)

Looking at trends between 1990-2010

Countries ranked on a 100-point scale
Min and max values not observed in practice

There has been progress since 1990
24%
14%
25%
40%
33%
44%

Country performance: by severity
29 countries: “alarming" or “extremely alarming” levels of hunger

Country progress

Winners and losers from 1990 GHI to 2010 GHI
Countries with both GHI 1990 and GHI 2010 less than five are excluded

Fighting the Crisis of Early Childhood Undernutrition
Child underweight contributes 7.4 of 15.1 points to GHI score (nearly half):
South Asia: underweight accounts for > half of score
SSAfrica: underweight has improved very slightly from 1990-2010 (from 27% to 24%)
Countries need to accelerate progress in improving child nutrition in order to improve their GHI scores

The perilous 1,000 days
-9 to 24 mo
Weight-for-height
Weight-for-age
Height-for-age

Height for age by region
Europe & Central Asia
Latin America & the Caribbean
North Africa & the Near East
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia

How to improve child nutrition?

Policy recommendations
Target nutrition interventions to the window of opportunity
Tackle the underlying conditions that cause undernutrition
Fostergender equity
Prioritize nutrition in political and policy processes
Engage, empower, and ensure sustained support for local actors in the area of nutrition

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