2010 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Focus on the crisis of child undernutrition
By Klaus von Grebmer, Marie T. Ruel, Purnima Menon, Bella Nestorova, Heidi Fritschel, Yisehac Yohannes, Constanze von Oppeln, Olive Towey, Kate Golden, Jennifer Thompson & Tolulope Olofinbiyi
- Release Date: 2010-10-11
- Genre: Health, Mind & Body
As the world approaches the 2015 deadline for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which include a goal of reducing the proportion of hungry people by half – the 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) offers a useful and multidimensional overview of global hunger. The 2010 GHI shows some improvement over the 1990 GHI, falling by almost one-quarter. Nonetheless, the index for hunger in the world remains at a level characterized as “serious.” This result is unsurprising given that the overall number of hungry people surpassed 1 billion people in 2009.