2018全球饥饿指数.pdf

2018 GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX FORCED MIGRATION AND HUNGER 2018 GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX FORCED MIGRATION AND HUNGER Klaus von Grebmer, Jill Bernstein, Fraser Patterson, Andrea Sonntag, Lisa Maria Klaus, Jan Fahlbusch, Olive Towey, Connell Foley, Seth Gitter, Kierstin Ekstrom, and Heidi Fritschel Guest Author Laura Hammond, SOAS University of London Dublin / Bonn October 2018 A Peer-Reviewed Publication A woman prepares tea and coffee in Bentiu—South Sudan’s largest IDP camp, with more than 112,000 people. The country is in its fifth year of conflict, which has caused large-scale displacement, led to high levels of food and nutrition insecurity, and left 7.1 million people dependent on humanitarian assistance. FOREWORD This year’s Global Hunger Index reveals a distressing gap between According to the 2018 Global Hunger Index, hunger in these two the current rate of progress in the fight against hunger and under- countries is serious, but the situation is improving thanks to a range nutrition and the rate of progress needed to eliminate hunger and of policies and programs that have been implemented. alleviate human suffering. The 2018 edition also has a special focus on the theme of forced The 2018 Global Hunger Index—published jointly by Concern migration and hunger. It features an essay by Laura Hammond of Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe—tracks the state of hunger world- SOAS University of London. Hunger, Hammond argues, can be both wide and spotlights those places where action to address hunger a cause and a consequence of the vast movement of displaced pop- is most urgently needed. The results show that in many countries, ulations, but the links are often poorly understood. Hunger and dis- and in terms of the global average, hunger and undernutrition have placement are both political problems, and short-te