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On February 20, 2017, the world awoke to a headline that should have never come about: Famine had been declared in parts of South Sudan, the first to be announced anywhere in the world in six years. This was on top of imminent famine warnings in northern Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen, putting a total of 20 million people at risk of starvation. The formal famine declaration in South Sudan meant that people were already dying of hunger.
Meanwhile, Venezuela’s political turmoil created massive food shortages in both the city and countryside, leaving millions without enough to eat in a region that, overall, has low levels of hunger. As the crisis there escalated and food prices soared, the poor were the first to suffer... read more
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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. GHI scores were not calculated for countries for which data were not available and for certain countries with small populations. The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Welthungerhilfe (WHH), or Concern Worldwide.
The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows long-term progress in reducing hunger in the world. The advances have been uneven, however, with millions of people still experiencing chronic hunger and many places suffering acute food crises and even famine.
According to 2017 GHI scores, the level of hunger in the world has decreased by 27 percent from the 2000 level. Of the 119 countries assessed in this year’s report, one falls in the extremely alarming range on the GHI Severity Scale; 7 fall in the alarming range; 44 in the serious range; and 24 in the moderate range. Only 43 countries have scores in the low range. In addition, 9 of the 13 countries that lack sufficient data for calculating 2017 GHI scores still raise significant concern, including Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria.
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International Food Policy Research Institute: Klaus von Grebmer (Research Fellow Emeritus), Jill Bernstein (Independent Consultant), Tracy Brown (Senior Editor), Nilam Prasai (Data Curator), Yisehac Yohannes (Research Analyst); Welthungerhilfe: Fraser Patterson (Policy and External Relations), Andrea Sonntag (Senior Advisor, Nutrition Policy), Sophia-Marie Zimmermann (Policy and External Relations); Concern Worldwide: Olive Towey (Head of Advocacy, Ireland & EU), Connell Foley (Director of Strategy, Advocacy, and Learning)
“Figure 2.5: 2017 Global Hunger Index by Severity.” Map in 2017 Global Hunger Index: The Inequalities of Hunger, by K. von Grebmer, J. Bernstein, N. Hossain, T. Brown, N. Prasai, Y. Yohannes, F. Patterson, A. Sonntag, S.-M. Zimmermann, O. Towey, and C. Foley. 2017. Bonn, Washington, DC, and Dublin: Welthungerhilfe, International Food Policy Research Institute, and Concern Worldwide.
Cover photograph: Soe Zeya Tun/REUTERS 2013; Villagers protest a copper-mine project in northwestern Myanmar that resulted in land seizures.
Video: United Nations, Feb. 2017; UN Secretary-General António Guterres urges the world to take ‘decisive’ action to alleviate the dire food insecurity in four countries, while urging the parties to conflict to abide by international humanitarian law and allow humanitarian access.
2nd photograph: Daniel Rosenthal/Welthungerhilfe 2013; Annette Bauteluz of Vieille Place in Nord-Ouest, Haiti, during the corn harvest. Most Haitian households are involved in agriculture. Women in Haiti, as in many countries, play a significant role in farming. Due to gender-discriminatory norms in access to food, women are more likely to suffer from hunger and malnutrition.
3rd photograph: Abbie Trayler-Smith/Panos 2007;