October 13

Global Hunger Index (GHI), 2011

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Source: International Food Policy Research Institute

From the summary:

This year’s Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that global hunger has declined since 1990, but not dramatically, and remains at a level characterized as "serious." Across regions and countries, GHI scores vary greatly. The highest GHI scores occur in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. ...

Twenty-six countries still have levels of hunger that are extremely alarming or alarming. The countries with extremely alarming 2011 GHI scores – Burundi, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Eritrea – are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most of the countries with alarming GHI scores are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Among the six countries in which the hunger situation worsened, the Democratic Republic of Congo stands out. Its GHI score rose by about 63 percent owing to conflict and political instability. (Because of time lags in the availability of data, the 2011 GHI does not reflect the impacts of the 2010–11 food price crisis or the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa.) From Docubase

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September 27

World Disasters Report 2011

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- Focus on hunger and malnutrition. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

 

This year’s World Disasters Report focuses on the growing crisis of hunger and malnutrition. Smallholder farmers who produce half the world’s food are among the almost 1 billion people who go to bed hungry every night. Millions of children suffer the irreversible effects of undernutrition. Increasing food insecurity weakens people’s resilience to disasters and disease, and people everywhere are experiencing the increasing volatility of food prices.

This report analyses the causes and impacts of such vulnerability at community, national and international levels – during and after emergencies, and from a longer-term perspective. It examines the challenges of the globalized nature of food-related vulnerabilities, and the need for a cross-disciplinary approach. The report acknowledges the complexities involved, that the issues of global food security, hunger and malnutrition go to the core of virtually all the major components of the functioning of the international system, from international trade to climate change, from water scarcity to scientific innovation. What political action is needed to reform a failing global food system unlikely to provide sufficient food for a population projected to rise to 9 billion by 2050?

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Link to publication web page for chapter-by-chapter download

January 26

Building Global Action To End Malnutrition. GAIN

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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition's (GAIN's) annual report for 2009-2010 titled 'Building Global Action to End Malnutrition' has been released. GAIN's mission is to reduce malnutrition through sustainable strategies aimed at improving the health and nutrition of populations at risk. From Polity.org.za

Link to full report:

http://www.gainhealth.org/annual-report-2009-2010/ANNUAL_REPORT_2010.pdf

September 15

Hunger. FAO

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Interactive hunger map

July 16

WFP Annual Report 2010

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The report highlight that even though 2009 proved to be another challenging year for World Food Programme,(WFP). The number of hungry people worldwide grew to more than 1 billion, the highest number on record. The Programme also faced shrinking humanitarian safe space to reach people, with unprecedented attacks on WFP staff and other humanitarian workers.  Despite these challenges, WFP was able to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance for 101.8 million people affected by conflict, storms, droughts, displacement, financial crises and other shocks that left them without food;  84 million of these beneficiaries were women and children. The report is available in English, French and Spanish .

From UN Pulse:

Permanent Link: WFP Annual Report 2010
June 18

In-Depth: Food Crisis: Status And Impacts

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Global: Multimedia coverage, links and stories : Some frontline stories
Government intervention  

GLOBAL: Hunger knows no borders
GLOBAL: We need another Green Revolution
Increased hunger  

MADAGASCAR: A financial crisis on the hoof
NEPAL: Food supplies running low in western hills

 

Rising aid costs  

LESOTHO: A mountain of challenges
BURKINA FASO: WFP expands food voucher distribution

 

 

Opportunities?  

KENYA: Bag a farm
GLOBAL: Improved farming rather than more food aid?
June 17

FAO Publications

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released new Flagship publications:

Economic crises - impacts and lessons learned

2009 has been a devastating year for the world’s hungry, marking a significant worsening of an already disappointing trend in global food security since 1996. The global economic slowdown, following on the heels of the food crisis in 2006–08, has deprived an additional 100 million people of access to adequate food. There have been marked increases in hunger in all of the world’s major regions, and more than one billion people are now estimated to be undernourished.

  • and The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets. FAO’s most important publications present comprehensive and objective information and analysis on the current global state of food and agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, forests, agricultural commodity markets and hunger. These titles are issued regularly, to inform public debate and policy-making at national and international levels.
December 07

Oxfam International: Video Library

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Oxfam International: Video

http://www.oxfam.org/en/video

Oxfam, the British aid organization that banded together with a dozen other organizations in 1995 to form Oxfam International, has a website loaded with resources, one of which is a video library. There are many issues covered, such as climate change, tsunami survivors, AIDS, and many videos include celebrities, including Colin Firth, Scarlett Johansson, Helen Mirren, and Annie Lennox. To increase their reach, many of the videos are also available on Youtube. To view the video in fullscreen, click on the screen icon next to the speaker icon. One of the more heart wrenching videos is the one titled "Our Home After Sidr-Documentary from Oxfam." It is the abridged version of a documentary, but conveys, nonetheless the dire situation of these Bangladesh survivors. Visitors should also not miss short animated video "Face the Music" about climate change, which uses only music and animation to show how climate change hits the poor "first and worst." [KMG] Scout Report

November 06

Hunger's Global Hotspots. World Food Programme

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The World Food Programme has released its 5 November 2008 summary of high profile emergencies in Hunger's Global Hotspots. The summary includes information on the situations in Afghanistan, Chad, DRC, Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Sudan, and Zimbabwe.

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March 27

UN ECOSOC Dialogues On Poverty And Hunger

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The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has a new publication, Strengthening Efforts to Eradicate Poverty and Hunger - Dialogues at the Economic and Social Council (full text, pdf, 3.7 Mb). The book presents an overview of the key debates that took place during the ECOSOC meetings at the 2007 High-level Segment, at which the Annual Ministerial Review and Development Cooperation Forum, two new functions mandated by world leaders at the 2005 World Summit, were launched. Permanent Link: ECOSOC dialogues on poverty and hunger UN Pulse