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Global Hunger Index 2009. The Challenge of Hunger: Focus on financial crisis and gender inequality

Klaus von Grebmer,
Bella Nestorova,
Agnes Quisumbing ,
Rebecca Fertziger,
Heidi Fritschel,
Rajul Pandya-Lorch,
Yisehac Yohannes

Published in : 2009

Available in : English

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that worldwide progress in reducing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quarter from the 1990 GHI. Southeast Asia, the Near East and North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean have reduced hunger significantly since 1990, but the GHI remains distressingly high in South Asia, which has made progress since 1990, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where progress has been marginal.

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Originally posted at : International Food Policy Research Institute

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Themes: Micronutrients, general, Nutrition and food systems, general, Nutrition planning, policy and programme, general, Undernutrition, general, Food and nutrition policies and strategies, Food chain, food production and processing, HIV / AIDS affected communities, HIV / AIDS affected communities, Maternal and child health, Maternal undernutrition / LBW, Micronutrient deficiencies, Micronutrient deficiencies, Stunting, Underweight, Wasting, Women and girls