Global index finds climate change driving “alarming” hunger levels
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Central African Republic topped an annual world hunger index on Tuesday as aid agencies warned that climate change was making it increasingly hard to feed the world. Aid agency Concern Worldwide, which co-compiles the Global Hunger Index, said progress towards a 2030 zero hunger target agreed by world leaders was “under threat […]
International community not on course to end hunger by 2030, says report
The international community is not on course to end hunger by the UN Sustainable Development Goal deadline of 2030, according to the 2016 Global Hunger Index. Produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute, the index shows that if the rate at which hunger declines remains the same as it has been since 1992, more […]