GHI Launch Des Moines 2012
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The Challenge of Hunger: ENSURING SUSTAINABLE FOOD SECURITY UNDERLAND, WATER, AND ENERGY STRESSES
2012 GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX
2012-1.0
GHI measures three dimensions of hunger
• Undernourishment
• Child underweight
• Child mortality
GHI = (PUN + CUW + CM)/3GHI: Global Hunger Index
PUN: proportion of the population that is undernourished (in%)
CUW: prevalence of underweight in children under five (in%) CM: proportion of children dying before the age of five (in%)
Regional performance and progress
3 countries “extremely alarming” 17 “alarming”Country GHI Country GHI Country GHI
Burundi 37 Ethiopia 29 Zambia 23
Eritrea 34 Chad 28 Mozambique 23
Haiti 31 Timor-Leste 27 India 23
Central African Rep. 27 Madagascar 23
Comoros 26 Niger 22
Sierra Leone 25 Djibouti 22
Yemen 24 Sudan 22
Angola 24 Nepal 20
Bangladesh 24
No complete data available for Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bhutan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Myanmar, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Somalia
Energy use, access to sanitation and food
Policies that threaten sustainable food security
Typology of land acquisitions according to 2012 GHI score and agricultural GDP
Poor people’s spending on food and energy (2007)
Policies that lead to sustainable food security
1Responsible governance of natural resources:
Getting the policy frameworks right
• Secure land and water rights
• Phase out subsidies
• Create a macroeconomic enabling environment
2Scaling up technical approaches:
Addressing the nexus
• Invest in agricultural production technologies that support increased land, water, and energy efficiency
• Foster approaches resulting in more efficient land, water, and energy use along the value chain
• Prevent resource depletion by monitoring and evaluating strategies in water, land, energy, and agricultural systems
3Addressing the drivers of natural resource scarcity:
Managing the risks
• Address demographic change, women’s access to education and reproductive health
• Raise incomes, lower inequality, and promote sustainable life-styles
• Mitigate and adapt to climate change through agriculture