@article{vonGrebmer:46014,
      recid = {46014},
      author = {von Grebmer, Klaus and Fritschel, Heidi and Nestorova,  Bella and Olofinbiyi, Tolulope and Pandya-Lorch, Rajul and  Yohannes, Yisehac},
      title = {The Challenge of Hunger: The 2008 Global Hunger Index.},
      address = {2008},
      number = {592-2016-39920},
      series = {Issue Brief},
      pages = {6},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {With high food prices threatening the food security of  millions of vulnerable households around the world, hunger  and malnutrition are back in the headlines. The world is  making only slow progress in reducing food insecurity,  according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI). Some regions—in  particular South and Southeast Asia, the Near East and  North Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean—have made  significant headway in combating hunger and malnutrition  since 1990, but in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the  GHI remains high. Moreover, progress in Sub-Saharan Africa  since 1990 has been marginal. The GHI is a tool developed  by IFPRI for regularly tracking the state of global hunger  and malnutrition. This year’s index reflects data until  2006—the most recent available global data—and does not yet  take account of the latest changes in the world food  system, in which a number of factors are converging to  raise prices for agricultural commodities to their highest  levels in decades. Food prices appear likely to remain high  in the near term, leading to food and nutrition insecurity  for poor people around the globe. In this risky and  changing environment, the GHI highlights key trends and the  geographic areas of greatest vulnerability.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/46014},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.46014},
}