2012 Global Hunger Index Launch Event "The Challenge of Hunger: Ensuring Sustainable Food Security Under Land, Water & Energy Stresses" with Claudia Ringler October 18, 2012

1. 2012 GLOBAL
HUNGER INDEX
The Challenge of Hunger:
ENSURING SUSTAINABLE
FOOD SECURITY UNDER
LAND, WATER, AND
ENERGY STRESSES
2012-1.0

2. GHI measures three dimensions of hunger
• Undernourishment
• Child underweight
• Child mortality
GHI = (PUN + CUW + CM)/3
GHI: 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%)

3. Regional performance and progress

5. 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

6. Energy use, access to sanitation and food

7. Policies that threaten sustainable food security

8. Typology of land acquisitions according
to 2012 GHI score and agricultural GDP

9. Poor people’s spending on food and energy (2007)

10. Policies that lead to sustainable food security

11. Responsible governance of natural resources:
Getting the policy frameworks right
• Secure land and water rights
• Phase out subsidies
• Create a macroeconomic enabling environment

12. Scaling 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

13. Addressing 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