Launch of Global Hunger Index 2022

Date: Thursday, 13 October 2022
Time: 16:00-17:30 h CEST | 2022

Multi-layered global crises and the war in Ukraine are putting global food security in peril, and the worst impacts are being felt by the very poorest. Last year’s UN Food Systems Summit put a spotlight on the range of national and international measures needed to fix our broken food systems. Yet the crucial topic of food systems governance – a key determinant of people’s ability to access nutritious and sustainable diets – has been largely neglected.

The 2022 Global Hunger Index (GHI) seeks to help fill this gap by focusing on the potential for local governance to contribute to food systems transformation. It draws together evidence from across the world of how communities are taking steps to achieve more equitable, resilient, and sustainable food systems. The report provides insights into initiatives and investments that are improving food systems governance at the local level, across both stable and fragile contexts.

On the eve of World Food Day, the launch of the 2022 GHI drew on the insights presented in the report to look at the power of rights-based, bottom-up, community-led governance to drive food systems transformation and highlight experiences from different contexts.

Welthungerhilfe, Concern Worldwide, and KfW hosted a conversation with speakers from policy, academia, and civil society in discussing the next steps needed to deliver real change and end hunger.