Yemen is among the world's most food-insecure nations, where Hunger situation in those countries has been classified as Alarming, according to the Global Hunger Index 2024 (GHI).
Burundi and South Sudan rank as the world's most food-insecure nations, with Somalia and Yemen following closely. Chad, Madagascar, and Lesotho also struggle with malnutrition, while the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Niger, and Liberia are facing a persistent global food crisis.
GHI emphasized that Malnutrition has long-term consequences, affecting health, development, and economic growth.
Since 2006, GHI has been reporting on the state of hunger globally, by region, and by country.
According to GHI the problem of hunger is complex, and different terms are used to describe its various forms.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) defines food deprivation, or undernourishment, as the habitual consumption of too few calories to provide the minimum dietary energy an individual requires to live a healthy and productive life, given that person’s sex, age, stature, and physical activity.
Under nutrition is the result of inadequate intake of food in terms of either quantity or quality, poor utilization of nutrients in the body due to infections or other illnesses, or a combination of these immediate causes.
These, in turn, result from a range of underlying factors, including household food insecurity; inadequate maternal health or childcare practices; or inadequate access to health services, safe water, and sanitation.
Hunger refers to the index based on the four component indicators (undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting, and child mortality). Taken together, the component indicators reflect deficiencies in calories as well as in micro-nutrients.
GHI 2024 concluded that Accelerated Action Is Needed to Progress toward Zero Hunger, noticing that the significant progress made against hunger between 2000 and 2016 shows how much can be accomplished in just a decade and a half.
Over that period, the global GHI score fell by about one-third, and hunger on the world scale moved from serious to moderate. Since then, for the world as a whole and for many countries, progress against hunger has stagnated, and in some countries it has even reversed despite the looming 2030 deadline to achieve Zero Hunger.
It is increasingly urgent for the world to reverse the alarming trends that are pushing hunger upward and to accelerate progress toward shaping equitable, nutritious, and resilient food systems, even within the context of a changing climate and turbulent g