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Global Hunger Index 2010 Launch Des Moines, Iowa by Marie Ruel The Challenge of Hunger: Focus on the Crisis of Child Undernutrition
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African Proverb
The hunger of one …
… is the shame of all!
Marie Ruel
IFPRIOctober 14, 2010Des Moines, Iowa
Why a Global Hunger Index?
• Raise awareness of regional and country differences in hunger
• Help learn from 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
Weight-for-height
Weight-for-age
Height-for-age
-9 to 24 mo
How to improve child nutrition?
Policy recommendations
• Target nutrition interventions to the window of opportunity
• Tackle the underlying conditions that cause undernutrition
• Foster gender equity
• Prioritize nutrition in political and policy processes
• Engage, empower, and ensure sustained support for local actors in the area of nutrition
• Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian
• Download from www.ifpri.org
• Embed interactive Worldhunger Map
• Wikipedia and Google Books
• Available as an interactive book, as e-book, for your Kindle, iPad, or mobile phone