"Indices can be powerful tools for international monitoring and advocacy, and if used in international rankings, can help foster a sense of healthy competition among countries. With this in mind, IFPRI's Global Hunger Index (GHI) was designed to help mobilize political will and promote good...

"With high food prices threatening the food security of millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger and malnutrition are back in the headlines. The world is making only slow progress in reducing food insecurity, according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Some regions—in...

"Progress in combating hunger and undernutrition has been lagging for decades. Best practices to fight hunger and undernutrition have been available for a long while, but lack of political will among leaders and a lack of political power among the poor have hampered their implementation. Since...

IEl Ãndice Global del Hambre (GHI) de este año muestra que el hambre global ha disminuido desde 1990 –pero no en forma dramática–y permanece en un nivel que se puede considerar como “serioâ€. Los puntajes del GHI varían ampliamente entre los diferentes países y regiones. Los...

Der Welthunger-Index 2011 zeigt, dass sich die globale Hungersituation seit 1990 geringfügig verbessert hat. Dennoch ist das Ausmaß des Hungers weltweit weiterhin „ernst“. Auf regionaler und nationaler Ebene sind die WHI-Werte sehr unterschiedlich. Die höchsten Werte und damit den...

From the 1990 GHI to the 2011 GHI, 15 countries were able to reduce their scores by 50 percent or more. Nineteen countries moved out of the bottom two categories – “extremely alarming†and “alarming.†In terms of absolute progress, Angola, Bangladesh, Ethiopia,...

Le Global Hunger Index 2011 (GHI), ou Indice de la faim dans le monde, est un outil statistique qui permet de mesurer et de suivre l’évolution de la faim dans le monde, pays par pays et région par région. Les conclusions du GHI de cette dernière édition montrent que le nombre de personnes...

Il Global Hunger Index (GHI) di quest’anno mostra che la fame nel mondo è diminuita dal 1990, ma non in modo notevole, e rimane a un livello classifi cato come “graveâ€. I livelli di GHI variano molto da regione a regione e da paese a paese. I punteggi più alti di GHI si registrano...