| Title | : | 2010 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Focus on the crisis of child undernutrition |
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| Author | : | 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 | : | 2010-10-11 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Health, Mind & Body, Books, Health & Fitness |
| Size | : | 5689180 |
| 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. |
