The current edition if the GHI reveals that armed conflicts, climate change and the coronavirus pandemic are intensifying each other; as a result, up to 828 million people were forced to go hungry.
According to the report of Global Hunger Index (GHI-2022), released on Tuesday in Islamabad, as things stand, 46 countries will not even achieve a low level of hunger by 2030, much less eliminate hunger entirely.
In Africa, South of the Sahara and South Asia are once again the regions with the highest rates of hunger, South Asia, the region with the worlds highest to hunger level, has the highest child stunting rate and by far the highest child wasting rate of any world region.
The report has ranked Pakistan at 99th?position out of the 121 countries. Pakistans chapter of report reveals that the countrys score had come down from 38.1 in 2006 to 26.1 in 2022 but the hunger level is still serious. The country which has zero score means that there is no issue of hunger.?
The Global Hunger Index is a pre-reviewed annual report, jointly published by Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide and will create awareness and understanding of the struggle against hunger.
The Country Director of Welthungerhilfe Aisha Jamshed said that her organization had worked to assist the food insecure people and build resilience in cooperation with the civil society, government and private sector.
Shafqat Ali, the Director of Local Government and Community Development department (LGCDD), Punjab also talked about the issue such as ensuring citizens participation, action, oversight and consider local context in transformation of food systems.
It was urged that communities, civil society, small producers, farmers, and indigenous groups with their local knowledge should shape how to access to nutritious food.
Although, the Russia-Ukraine war badly danged the worlds efforts to reduce the hunger, particularly from South Asia and Africa yet the efforts at domestic level can resolve the hunger problem to some extent.