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Eine Frau sitzt auf dem Boden und verkauft Gemüse.

14.10.2021 | Press Release Ground Being Lost in the Fight Against Hunger Due to War and Climate Change

Welthungerhilfe presents the 2021 Global Hunger Index.

21.09.2021 | Press Release Welthungerhilfe Calls for Fundamental Reform of the Food System

On Thursday, the Food Systems Summit will take place in New York.

08.08.2021 | Guest Commentary Fishing and aquaculture: underestimated as a source of income and food

Aquatic animals are a renewable resource that can feed people indefinitely if they are managed sustainably. Unfortunately, this is not currently the...

08.08.2021 | Guest Commentary What to know about illegal fishing to put a stop to it

There is a lack of transparency in monitoring transnational criminal networks. International bodies must become more effective – and harmful subsidies...

22.05.2021 | Guest Commentary Declining biodiversity threatens food security

Biodiversity loss make agriculture more vulnerable to climate change, pests and diseases. Nutrition is becoming more and more unbalanced.

Gemüse- und Obstregal in einem Supermarkt.

27.04.2021 | Blog "This summit must not become bogged down in ideological battles"

The Food Systems Summit aims to make food systems a top priority. Joachim von Braun on hunger and the role of science.

Ein Mann trägt einen großen Teller mit Essen auf dem Kopf bei einem Markt im indischen Jamshedpur.

07.04.2021 | Guest Commentary The dark side of the Green Revolution

India produces large grain surpluses. Yet, the World Hunger Index lists its hunger problem as "serious". How to explain this contradiction?

09.03.2021 | Press Release No End to the Pandemic Without Vaccine Justice

The Coronavirus is Mutating into a Hunger Virus inPoor Countries

06.05.2020 | Blog Early release of Child Growth Monitor

Beta version of the app to be made available due to coronavirus

Eine Frau bei der Karottenernte in Haiti.

28.11.2019 | Press Release Climate Change, Corruption and Unrest are Causing Increased Hunger in Haiti

35 percent of the population in Haiti are heavily dependent on food aid.

A Malawian farmer standing in his flooded field, looking at the camera.

15.10.2019 | Press Release GHI 2019: Climate Change is Exacerbating Hunger

The GHI 2019 shows that climate change is worsening the nutrition situation in countries that are already affected by hunger and poverty.

Women in colourful clothing standing in a queue looking at the camera

17.07.2019 | Press Release War and Climate Change Increase Hunger

Another increase of hunger figures: According to the UN, 821.6 million people around the world were suffering from hunger in 2018.