The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released the 2015 installments of its annual stocktaking reports on the prevalence of hunger and malnutrition around the world.
The publications are titled, '2015 Global Hunger Index: Armed Conflict and the Challenge of Hunger;' and 'Global Nutrition Report 2015: Actions and Accountability to Advance Nutrition and Sustainable Development.'
October 2016: The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has released the 2015 installments of its annual stocktaking reports on the prevalence of hunger and malnutrition around the world. The publications are titled, ‘2015 Global Hunger Index: Armed Conflict and the Challenge of Hunger;’ and ‘Global Nutrition Report 2015: Actions and Accountability to Advance Nutrition and Sustainable Development.’
The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that hunger in developing countries has decreased by 27% since 2000; however hunger levels remain at alarming rates in 52 countries. Regional GHI scores vary significantly with the highest regional scores in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, whereas East and Southeast Asia, the Near East, North Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean show low or moderate levels of hunger.
The report also contains an essay on armed conflict and hunger that shows that conflict-related famines have decreased in the 21st century. The author argues that despite a lower death toll by historic standards, recent famines are complex humanitarian emergencies caused mostly by armed conflict. The essay concludes that without an end to armed conflict the gains in combating hunger around the world are at risk of being lost.
The Global Nutrition Report 2015 assesses the progress of countries in achieving the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Nutrition Targets 2025. It shows that progress in reducing malnutrition has been slow, as no country is currently on track to meet these targets, and more than half of the world’s countries continue to face the consequences of malnutrition, such as poor growth in children, micronutrient deficiency, as well as adult obesity.
The report also contains sections on: scaling up financial and capacity resources for nutrition; climate change and nutrition; indicators for nutrition-friendly and sustainable food systems; and strengthening accountability for business in nutrition, including lessons learned inside and outside nutrition and recommendations for increasing accountability.
IFPRI is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. [Publication: 2015 Global Hunger Index: Armed Conflict and the Challenge of Hunger][Publication: Global Nutrition Report 2015; Actions and Accountability to Advance Nutrition and Sustainable Development]