GLOBAL HUNGER INDEX 2024: HOW GENDER JUSTICE CAN ADVANCE CLIMATE RESILIENCE AND ZERO HUNGER

As we edge closer to 2030, the target year to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the prospects of reaching Goal 2: Zero Hunger are grim. Progress against hunger has slowed to a troubling degree owing to a barrage of successive and overlapping challenges that have hit the world’s poorest countries and people hardest, amplifying structural inequalities.

The 2024 Global Hunger Index (GHI), published today, shows hunger levels are at serious or alarming levels in 42 countries. Progress in addressing hunger has stagnated, with little noted change since 2016, owing to persistent inequalities, large-scale armed conflicts, increasingly severe climate impacts, high domestic food prices, economic downturns, and debt crises in many countries. At the current pace, at least 64 countries, or half of those¬ ranked in the report, will not reach low hunger—much less Zero Hunger – by 2030. In fact, remaining at this progress pace, we will not reach even low hunger until 2160 – more than 130 years from now.

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