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2008 Global Hunger Index

2008 Global Hunger Index. Klaus von Grebmer International Food Policy Research Institute. Why a Global Hunger Index?. Positioning own country in relation to other countries Learning from success (progress) and failures (regress) Attention of global community with regard to hunger

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2008 Global Hunger Index

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  1. 2008 Global Hunger Index Klaus von Grebmer International Food Policy Research Institute

  2. Why a Global Hunger Index? • Positioning own country in relation to other countries • Learning from success (progress) and failures (regress) • Attention of global community with regard to hunger • Incentive to act, to improve international ranking

  3. 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI) • Involves 120 developing and transitional countries countries and ranks 88 of them • Uses three equally-weighted indicators • Combines them into one index

  4. How Is the GHI calculated?

  5. How Is the Global Hunger Index Scaled?

  6. Country Classification: n= 120

  7. Global Trends 1990 - 2008 • Hunger (overall score) has decreased by less than one-fifth • 1990: 18.7 • 2008: 15.2 • Most progress in reducing proportion of underweight children • Indicator decreased by 5.9 points since 1990

  8. Regional Trends • Lowest regional scores (“alarming”) in 2008 • Sub-Saharan Africa: 23.3 • South Asia: 23.0 • Nine of the ten countries with the highest levels of hunger are in Sub-Saharan Africa • No Sub-Saharan African country is among the ten most improved since 1990

  9. Country Level Trends

  10. Country Level Trends

  11. Who Is “Poor”?

  12. Where Do The Poor Live?

  13. How Is the Global Hunger Index Scaled?

  14. 2008 Global Hunger Index

  15. Progress - Regress

  16. GHI-Winners and Losers 1990 - 2008

  17. Global Food Price Crisis

  18. Impact of Food Price Crisis • Exacerbates hunger problems in many countries • Cuts into poor households’ food budgets, • Serious risks for undernourished infants and children under two • Reduces the amount of food aid that donors can supply

  19. Food Price Crisis and Political Stability

  20. Financial Crisis • The financial crises led to sinking commodity prices • This is a short term relief for the poor • Capital for long term agricultural investments is getting scarcer • The sustainable solution of the global food crisis is at risk

  21. Summary • There is progress in the fight against hunger, but not on a broad base • The mixture of progress and regress in various countries means globally stagnation • This is intolerable

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