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    Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 GHI. Southeast Asia, the Near East and ...
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    Sub-Saharan Africa Of the ten countries with the highest levels of hunger, and of the ten whose scores have actually increased since 1990, nine are in Sub-Saharan Africa in both cases. Of the ten countries that most improved their GHI ...
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    About the Index The 2009 Global Hunger Index (GHI) ranks 84 developing and transitional countries using three equally-weighted indicators and combines them into one score. The three indicators are: The proportion of people who are ...
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    Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) Die Ergebnisse des Welthunger-Indexes (WHI) zeigen deutlich, dass weiterhin nur geringe Fortschritte bei der globalen Hungerbekämpfung erzielt werden. Die WHI-Werte 2009 sind im Vergleich mit denen ...
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    Countries can gauge their economic performance by looking at gross domestic product, but to assess their progress on fighting hunger, they must usually consider a multitude of indicators. To provide a simple way of ranking countries and ...
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    Gwendolyn has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and has worked as a journalism professor, writer, and editor in the United States, Peru, Australia, and Italy. In 2006, she earned a PhD in history from the University ...
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    Klaus von Grebmer, a citizen of Switzerland, is director of IFPRI's Communications Division. His work focuses on ways to communicate IFPRI's research findings to policymakers in developing countries and to key stakeholders in developed countries ...
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    Maru Valdes, a Mexican citizen, is Head of Policy Seminars and Conferences of IFPRI’s Communications Division. Maru’s work throughout her career has had a strong focus on capacity development activities. Before joining IFPRI, Maru worked in ...
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    Peter joined IFPRI in 2007 as an Information and Knowledge Management Specialist in the Communications Division. Prior to IFPRI Peter worked for the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture, and Development (CIIFAD) in managing a ...
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