Introduction

•  Women’s diet is one of the immediate determinants of maternal and child nutrition

Objectives

IFPRI's IMPACT model allows policy makers, analysts, and civil society to explore future scenarios for food security—including the impact of climate change on agricultural production and hunger—through an integrated system of linked economic, clim

The Global Hunger Index tracks progress in reducing hunger at the global and country levels.

Total factor productivity (TFP) provides a measure of the efficiency of agricultural production, allowing for comparisons across time and across countries.

ASTI provides open-access data and analysis on agricultural research investment and capacity in low- and middle-income countries as well as benchmarking tools that allow for tracking the performance of national agricultural R&D systems.

The FPRCI database provides measures of quality and quantity of national capacity for food policy research in 33 developing countries.

SPEED tracks public expenditures in agriculture and other sectors by national governments across 109 developing countries and 35 developed countries.

Note: For the 2017 GHI, data on the proportion of undernourished are for 2014–2016; data on child stunting and wasting are for the latest year in the period 2012–2016 for which data are available; and data on child mortality are for 2015.

2015 Global Hunger Index: How it's measured

2015 Global Hunger Index: Calamitous famines cause 1 million or more deaths

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is based on four component indicators: >> UNDERNOURISHMENT: the proportion of undernourished people as a percentage of the population (reflecting the share of the population with insufficient caloric intake); &g

Countries are making some headway on reducing undernutrition, but it's far too slow. Overweight and obesity are getting worse, not better.

These crops have been conventionally bred to be rich in essential vitamins and minerals that are needed for good health.

At a 2012 meeting of the World Health Assembly, all 193 UN member nations committed to achieving global nutrition targets by 2025. So far, the number of countries on course to meet the global targets is much too low.

Map and graph of 2014 GHI scores by country.

Infographic explaining that $3 billion per year (less than 5% of development assistance budget) would allow 100 million children to live free of malnutrition.