Climate change making the world hungrier

Climate change is increasing global hunger, with some countries worse off today than a decade ago, a new study shows. Since 2000, progress in reducing hunger has been uneven, with it persisting in many countries and increasing in others, according to the 2019 Global Hunger Index (GHI), published today.

One country — the Central African Republic — suffers from a level of hunger that is ‘extremely alarming’ (the highest level on the GHI scale), while four countries — Chad, Madagascar, Yemen, and Zambia — suffer from levels of hunger that are ‘alarming’. Of the 117 countries ranked as part of the index, 43 have ‘serious’ levels of hunger.