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Global Hunger Index
Mozambique has a serious hunger problem, a report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) said yesterday. The institute seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty.
The country’s 2016 Global Hunger Index or GHI score is 31,7 out of 118 countries covered by the institute. The institute stated that Mozambique’s hunger position was ‘serious.’
The proportion of undernourished people in the population was 25.3%, the report said. The prevalence of wasting in children under five years was 6.1%, while the prevalence of stunting in children under five years was 43.1%. The under-five mortality rate was 7.9%.
However, Mozambique has improved in these last eight years, as the ranking in 2008 was 38.2, considered “alarming,” and the country was the 11th worst covered by the Global Hunger Index.
The report by IFPRI stated that the global community is not on course to end hunger by the United Nations sustainable development goal deadline of 2030, according to data from the index.
“Simply put, countries must accelerate the pace at which they are reducing hunger, or we will fail to achieve the second sustainable development goal,” said IFPRI director general Shenggen Fan.
The Central African Republic, Chad, and Zambia had the highest levels of hunger, according to the report.
The report, however, also outlined some bright spots in the fight to end world hunger. The level of hunger in developing countries as measured by the Global Hunger Index has fallen by 29% since 2000.
The GHI is based on four key indicators: undernourishment, child mortality, child wasting and child stunting.
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