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Resources for Understanding Hunger and Nutrition

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool for assessing hunger at global, regional, and national levels. Among its strengths are the following:

Measuring and tracking long-term trends. The 2026 GHI scores are based on the most up-to-date data available for the underlying indicators for each country. This GHI report also includes GHI scores for 2000, 2006, 2012, and 2018 to show trends in hunger over time.
Reflecting both the quantity and quality of food and diets. The four indicators underlying GHI scores—undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, and child mortality—reflect deficiencies in calories (quantity) as well as in important micronutrients (quality).
Complementing other reports and resources. The countries where GHI scores are high—indicating that calories are chronically insufficient and/or children’s growth and well-being have been hampered by undernutrition—are particularly vulnerable to food crises and stresses, which are reported by other sources.

Resources on Structural Drivers of Hunger

World Risk Report and World Risk Index

The World Risk Report is an annual technical report and index ranking of global disaster risks published jointly by the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) at Ruhr University Bochum and Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft. It highlights the interactions between extreme natural events, the negative impacts of climate change, societal inequalities, and disaster risk reduction.

Central to the report is the World Risk Index. The report draws attention to the structural factors that increase risk, including weak infrastructure, poverty, and fragile food systems—key drivers of food insecurity and hunger.

Resources on Food Crises and Early Warning Systems

Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)

FEWS NET, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, provides real-time assessments and short-term projections of acute food insecurity around the world.

Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS)

The Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) continuously monitors food supply and demand and other key indicators for assessing the overall food security situation in all countries of the world.

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an initiative led by 15 international development agencies to improve analysis and decision-making on food security and nutrition.

Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC)

This annual report produced by the Global Network against Food Crises gives an overview and country-by-country update on acute, crisis-level food insecurity.

Resources on Food and Nutrition Security

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI)

This annual report—by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO—is designed to chart progress toward ending hunger, achieving food security improving nutrition, and to analyse the challenges for achieving this goal in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Global Nutrition Report (GNR)

The Global Nutrition Report reports on countries’ progress toward meeting global nutrition targets, evaluates the health- and planet-related impact of poor diets, assesses the nutrition financing landscape, and provides an overview of reporting on past Nutrition for Growth (N4G) commitments.

Voices of the Hungry Project

This project of FAO uses the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES), an experience-based measure of household or individual food security. The project provides up-to-date, internationally comparable information about food insecurity.