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The Global Hunger Index presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger by assigning a numerical score based on several aspects of hunger. Countries are then ranked by GHI score and compared to previous scores from three reference years (e.g., the 2024 GHI scores can be directly compared to 2000, 2008, and 2016 GHI ...
She led one after a drought-driven hunger crisis gripped Ethiopia from 2015 to 2018. The report concluded that while famine was avoided, funding came too late to prevent a huge spike in severe ...
More than 258 million people across 58 countries faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2022, according to a new United Nations-led report. Despite years of warnings, experts say this ...
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report 2023 described food supply crises as an ongoing global risk. [26] The Russian invasion of Ukraine and crop failures from climate change worsened worldwide hunger and malnutrition. [27] Even Global North countries known for stable food supplies have been impacted. [28]
Despite the hardship caused by the 2007–2009 financial crisis and global increases in food prices that occurred around the same time, the UN's global statistics show it was followed by close to year on year reductions in the numbers suffering from hunger around the world. By 2019 however, evidence had mounted that this progress seemed to have ...
The war in Sudan is “triggering the world’s largest hunger crisis,” with more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity, a United Nations agency has warned.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the new “tragic data” shows that between 720 million and 811 million people in the world faced hunger last year -- as many as 161 million more than ...
In September 2022, the World Food Programme estimated that 17.4 million Yemenis struggled with food insecurity, and projected that number would increase to 19 million by the end of the year, describing this level of hunger as "unprecedented." [9] The crisis is being compounded by an outbreak of cholera, which resulted in over 3000 deaths ...