Communications

2011 Global Hunger Index now available 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 North ...

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 ...

2011 Global Hunger Index now available Embeddable Map (Put this map on your website) As the world approaches the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which include a goal of reducing the proportion of ...

The 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) is calculated for 122 developing countries and countries in transition for which data on the three components of hunger are available. The Index scores countries based on three equally weighted ...

A cinq ans de la date butoir fixée pour atteindre les Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement (OMD), parmi lesquels celui de réduire de moitié la proportion de la population qui souffre de la faim, le rapport « L’indice de la faim dans le ...

Mentre il mondo si avvicina alla scadenza fi ssata nel 2015 per il raggiungimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo del Millennio (MDG, Millennium Development Goals) – tra i quali rientra il dimezzamento della percentuale di persone che soffrono la ...

The 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) is calculated for 122 developing countries and countries in transition for which data on the three components of hunger are available. This year’s GHI reflects data from 2004 to 2009—the most recent ...

Wheat, which provides nearly three-fifths of the total caloric intake in Tajikistan, accounts for almost half of the country’s irrigated production and almost two-thirds of its rain fed production. In May 2011, the price of wheat in ...

The 2011 GHI score fell by 18 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa compared with the 1990 score. Sub-Saharan Africa’s GHI score stagnated between 1990 and 1996, fell slightly until 2001, and declined more markedly up to the period reflected in the ...

Download Full Report GHI Mobile App Summary This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that global hunger has declined since 1990, but not dramatically, and remains at a level characterized as “serious.” <!--break--> 2011 GHI Issue ...

Zusammenfassung 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 ...

Policy researchers spend an immense amount of time designing projects, developing questionnaires, collecting and analyzing data, and formulating possible policy implications. But hard work and excellence alone do not guarantee that public policy ...

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 ...

Gwendolyn Stansbury received her master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York in 1990 and her PhD in 2006 from the University of New England in Australia. Her doctoral dissertation broadly examined the relationship between ...

In January 2007, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) published its first Africa Strategy, the first of any region. That first edition of the strategy was completed after a thorough review of the institute’s activities in the ...

Résumé 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 ...

Resumen El Índice 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 “serio”. Los puntajes del GHI varían ampliamente entre ...

Sommario 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 “grave”. I livelli di GHI variano molto da regione a ...

Insights Magazine is designed to give a broad picture of the work of IFPRI’s researchers and to show how this work matters for the world’s poor and hungry people. Insights Magazine Website

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 ...

Peter joined IFPRI in 2006 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 ...

How does information about a suspected outbreak of avian influenza on the farm level reach the respective authorities? How and through which actors is the response to a confirmed outbreak implemented on the ground? These were the guiding ...

In many developing countries, information regarding the occurrence of a disease outbreak must travel through a network of individuals and institutions before it reaches the central government. Likewise, the response must travel back through these ...

Evidence-based policymaking relies on findings from research and analysis. The availability of information and data is the foundation for sound policy advice, but developing countries lack access to the timely knowledge and data fundamental for ...