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Hunger and Global Resources: Exploring the Connection

On October 11, IFPRI will release the seventh edition of its annual Global Hunger Index (GHI). This year's GHI, titled The Challenge of Hunger: Ensuring Sustainable Food Security Under Land, Water, and Energy Stresses , addresses the issue of sustainable resource use and its importance to feeding a hungry world. The report brings together a series of policy recommendations to address the underlying causes of hunger, malnutrition, and food insecurity, with a focus on protecting the world's crucial land, water, and energy resources. These recommendations will provide policymakers with concrete steps to stop unsustainable policies and improve resource use and food security.

Released annually, the Global Hunger Index is published by the International Food Policy Research Institute in collaboration with Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe and provides a comprehensive measure of hunger in 120 developing countries. The report will be launched at several events around the world, starting on October 18 in Des Moines, Iowa at the 2012 Borlaug Dialogue. This event will be held as part of the World Food Prize conference. Speakers for the event include IFPRI’s Claudia Ringler, co-author of the 2012 GHI, and Margaret Catley-Carlson of the World Economic Forum Advisory Council on Water, as well as Connell Foley of Concern Worldwide and Mathias Mogge of Welthungerhilfe. IFPRI’s Rajul Pandya-Lorch will chair the event. For more details about this event, visit the event page.