The 2012 Global Hunger Index document summarizes key findings about global hunger levels. It finds that while global hunger has decreased by 26% since 1990, hunger remains serious with 20 countries classified as having alarming or extremely alarming hunger levels, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The report examines the challenges of ensuring sustainable food security given pressures on land, water and energy resources. It advocates policy frameworks and technical approaches that manage these resources sustainably to address the nexus of food, land, water and energy security and meet rising global food demand. The report also highlights Concern Worldwide's work on hunger and climate risk reduction in Mozambique.

1. 2012 GLOBAL
HUNGER INDEX
The Challenge of Hunger:
ENSURING SUSTAINABLE
FOOD SECURITY UNDER
LAND, WATER AND
ENERGY STRESSES

2. Concern Worldwide
• Founded in 1968, operational in Mozambique since 1987
• Supports 25 countries, majority in SSA
• Concern CEO Tom Arnold current member of the Lead
Group of Scaling Up Nutrition Movement
• Concern CEO member of the UN High Level Hunger Task
Force and the Irish Hunger Task Force
• Developed the approach Community Based Management of
Acute Malnutrition (CMAM)
• Founder initiator of the Global First 1,000 Days Movement
• Lead of the First 1,000 Days Movement in Ireland

3. Global launch of the 2012 Global Hunger Index
• The IFPRI, Concern, Welthungerhilfe collaboration aims to
reach global policy developers and implementers with the
recommendations in the GHI, therefore in October 2012,
launch events of the GHI are being held in;
• Washington, London, Berlin, Paris, Dublin, DeMoines,
Belfast, Milan, Nairobi, Harare, Freetown, Maputo

4. Why a Global Hunger Index?
• To raise awareness of regional and country differences
in hunger
• To show progress over time
• To help learn from successes and failures in hunger
reduction
• To provide incentives to act and improve the
international ranking
• To focus on one major hunger-related topic every year

5. GHI measures three dimensions of hunger
• Undernourishment
• Child underweight
• Child mortality
GHI = (PUN + CUW + CM)/3
GHI: Global Hunger Index
PUN: proportion of the population that is undernourished (in%)
CUW: prevalence of underweight in children under five (in%)
CM: proportion of children dying before the age of five (in%)

6. Countries ranked on a 100 point scale
Minimum and maximum values not observed in practice

8. 3 countries “extremely alarming” 17 “alarming”
Country GHI Country GHI Country GHI
Burundi 37 Ethiopia 29 Zambia 23
Eritrea 34 Chad 28 Mozambique 23
Haiti 31 Timor-Leste 27 India 23
Central African Rep. 27 Madagascar 23
Comoros 26 Niger 22
Sierra Leone 25 Djibouti 22
Yemen 24 Sudan 22
Angola 24 Nepal 20
Bangladesh 24
No complete data for: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Democratic Republic of Congo,
Iraq, Myanmar, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Somalia

9. Summary of Key Findings
“Recent events—drought, scrambles to invest in farmland around the
world, shifts in energy prices and shocks in energy supplies—
underline the scarcity of resources we depend on to produce the
world’s food supply.”
“The stark reality is that the world needs to produce more food
with fewer resources, while eliminating wasteful practices and
policies.”
• Hunger on a global scale remains “serious.” 20 countries have
levels of hunger that are “alarming” or “extremely alarming.”
• South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa – highest levels of hunger
• More than 50 percent of the population is undernourished in
Burundi, Eritrea, and Haiti.

10. Summary of Key Findings 2
• The 2012 world GHI fell by 26 percent from the 1990
world GHI.
• Largest absolute improvements: Angola, Bangladesh,
Ethiopia, Malawi, Nicaragua, Niger, and Vietnam.
• Haiti’s GHI score fell about one quarter from 1990-2001,
but most of this improvement was reversed in
subsequent years.
• Almost all the countries in which the hunger situation
worsened from the 1990 GHI to the 2012 GHI are in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Mozambique movement - 23.7 in 2010, 22.7 in 2011,
23.3 in 2012

11. Regional performance and progress

12. Selected trends in Income and GHI

13. Theme of the 2012 GHI Report
How to ensure sustainable food security under
conditions of land, water and energy stress
Land
Produce more food
Nexus
with fewer resources
Water Energy

14. Conventional World Scenario - Policies that threaten
sustainable food security

15. Sustainable World Scenario - Policies that lead to
sustainable food security

16. Responsible governance of natural resources:
Getting the policy frameworks right
• Secure land and water rights
• Phase out subsidies (on water, fossil fuels, fertilizer)
• Create a macroeconomic enabling environment
• Market based payments for resource conservation
• Enhanced regional trade to make production more efficient & offset
effects of climate change
• Encourage farmers to move up the value chain

17. Scaling up technical approaches:
Addressing the nexus
• Invest in agricultural production technologies that
support increased land, water, and energy
efficiency
• Foster approaches resulting in more efficient land,
water, and energy use along the value chain
• Prevent resource depletion by monitoring and
evaluating strategies in water, land, energy, and
agricultural systems

18. Addressing the drivers
of natural resource scarcity:
Managing the risks
• Address demographic change, women’s access to
education and reproductive health
• Raise incomes, lower inequality, and promote
sustainable life-styles
• Mitigate and adapt to climate change through
agriculture

19. Concern Worldwide work on Hunger and Climate
Risk Reduction in Mozambique
• Will add a v. brief summary with some images

20. Concerns’ area of operation on
Food/Hunger/Resilience as of Oct 2012
Zambezia Manica

21. Using asset and vulnerability poverty ranking for
targeting support
Wealth ranked income and expenditure - Livelihood Zone 13c
Inhassunge Interior Agriculture and Fishing Zone (Oct, 2012,
Food Economy Group/Concern

22. Food Income Markets, Income Equity and Nutrition
Vulnerability –Joaquina
Mauricio’s damaged house,
Chinde April 2012
Mucuandaia Garden group, Chinde 2012
Supporting women and up to 16,200 farm families–
produce more volume and variety with increased
access to income and its management and minimise Internal view - simple
the impact of natural disasters bracing and geometry

23. On behalf of IFPRI, Concern and
Welthungerhilfe,
thank you for your attention.

24. • GHI is Available in English,
German, Spanish, French,
and Italian
• Download from
www.ifpri.org
www.welthungerhilfe.de
www.concern.net
• Embed interactive world
hunger map
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Books
• Available as interactive
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