2014 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hidden hunger

Autor: von Grebmer, Klaus, Saltzman, Amy, Birol, Ekin, Wiesman, Doris, Prasai, Nilam, Yin, Sandra, Yohannes, Yisehac, Menon, Purnima, Thompson, Jennifer, Sonntag, Andrea
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Africa South of Sahara
Caribbean
CIS
Commonwealth of Independent States
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Latin America
Developing countries
Middle East
North Africa
OECD countries
India
East Africa
East Asia
Eastern Europe
Food availability
food crises
food crisis
food prices
food security
Global Hunger Index
GHI
Gross income
indicators
Children
Land
Land degradation
Nutrition
Malnutrition
Undernutrition
Hunger
Micronutrients
Mortality
Natural resources
Climate change
Data
Policies
Poverty
property rights
smallholders
Stress
Sustainable development
sustainable livelihoods
transition economies
Underweight
Water
resilience
natural disasters
disaster relief
environmental disasters
emergencies
environmental shocks
environmental risks
nutritive value
vitamin deficiencies
mineral deficiencies
nutrition security
Popis: With one more year before the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, the 2014 Global Hunger Index report offers a multifaceted overview of global hunger that brings new insights to the global debate on where to focus efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. The state of hunger in developing countries as a group has improved since 1990, falling by 39 percent, according to the 2014 GHI. Despite progress made, the level of hunger in the world is still “serious,†with 805 million people continuing to go hungry, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The global average obscures dramatic differences across regions and countries. Regionally, the highest GHI scores—and therefore the highest hunger levels—are in Africa south of the Sahara and South Asia, which have also experienced the greatest absolute improvements since 2005. South Asia saw the steepest absolute decline in GHI scores since 1990. Progress in addressing child underweight was the main factor behind the improved GHI score for the region since 1990.
Databáze: OpenAIRE