The 2015 Global Hunger Index: The Media Perspective
Reporters at top media outlets around the world covered the 2015 Global Hunger Index to help tell the story of the one in nine people who still go hungry.
Reporters at top media outlets around the world covered the 2015 Global Hunger Index to help tell the story of the one in nine people who still go hungry.
The Global Hunger Index was covered in an article by the BBC’s Mark Kinver, who explored the conflict angle of the report.
Conflicts are strongly associated with severe hunger
Burundi’s UNICEF representative Bo Viktor Nylund cited the Global Hunger Index in an article for The Guardian during his assessment of food scarcity in the African nation.
The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof included the Global Nutrition Report in his column about malnutrition in India. The column pulls from the report that a majority of children under five in Uttar Pradesh, India are stunted.
The Washington Post covered the 2015 Global Hunger Index with a series of maps to help readers gain a visual understanding of hunger worldwide.
The editorial board of Pakistan Today penned an editorial praising the 2015 Global Hunger Index and saying it “should act as an eye opener to countries like Pakistan.” The country has the 11th highest GHI score in the report, indicating
19 South, East, and Southeast Asian countries included in the report
Timor-Leste, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and North Korea have the highest hunger levels in Asia
38 countries in Africa South of the Sahara included in the report
Hunger in the region rated “serious”
Although undernourishment in Haiti is still high, it has fallen by almost one-third since 1990. Haiti’s 2013 GHI score of 23.3 was more than one-quarter lower than its 1990 score, yet it is still considered “alarming.”