Media Factsheet

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 ...

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 ...

Burundi, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Eritrea have the greatest levels of hunger. Angola, Chad, and Somalia have the highest under-five mortality rates at 20 percent or more. More than 50 percent of people in ...

Kenya, which ranks 50 on the 2011 Global Hunger Index, is classified has having a “serious” hunger problem. In comparison, Ghana ranks 20, Uganda ranks 42, Tanzania is 58, Ethiopia is 77, Eritrea ranks 79, and Burundi is 80. With a ranking of ...

South Asia has the highest regional 2011 Global Hunger Index (GHI) score—22.6. The 2011 GHI score fell by 25 percent in South Asia compared with its 1990 score, and the 2011 GHI score in Southeast Asia decreased by 44 percent. More ...

Media briefing on GM Crops for African Farmers, May 19, 2009 In most African countries, agriculture is the engine of economic growth, and agricultural growth is the cornerstone of poverty reduction. Approximately sixty-five percent of ...

Sub-Saharan Africa Different climate change scenarios are analyzed using IFPRI’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT), combined with other models. IMPACT projects alternative future ...

According to the study, the Asia-Pacific region will experience the worst effect on rice and wheat yields worldwide, and decreased yields could threaten the food security of 1.6 billion people in South Asia. The crop model indicates that ...

The crop modeling results indicate that climate change will have a negative effect on crop yields in the Middle East and North Africa in 2050. The region will face yield declines of up to 30 percent for rice, about 47 percent for maize and 20 ...

L’Indice de la faim dans le monde 2011 (GHI – Global Hunger Index) est calculé pour 122 pays en développement et pays en transition pour lesquels des données sur les trois composantes de la faim sont disponibles. Le GHI de cette ...

Criteria for selecting success stories After first determining that an initiative directly involved agriculture in at least one developing country, 20 case studies were selected out of nearly 300 nominations based on the ...

Media briefing on GM Crops for African Farmers, May 19, 2009 In 2008, genetically modified (GM) crops were grown on a total of 125 million hectares of land in 25 different countries. Of these 25, 15 are developing nations. The top ...

Ghana has long been regarded as one of the most successful countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. It recently attained middle-income status and will likely achieve the first Millennium Development Goal of cutting poverty in half before the target ...

Mozambique’s GDP grew by 8.2 percent per year from 1993-2007, albeit from a low starting point. Despite this growth, the structure of the economy has barely changed in the past 20 years. Industry and services trail far behind the farm sector as ...

Uganda is a predominantly rural society. About 85 percent of the population earns most of its income from agriculture and the sector is central to poverty reduction efforts. At 3.4 percent per year, the population growth rate is among ...