Food Security: Conflict Drives 'Alarming' Global Hunger, Report Shows

Oct 12, 2015 | Mark Kinver, BBC News
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Many of the 52 nations where the situation is serious or alarming are predominately ones experiencing civil unrest, the annual assessment says. However, hunger in developing countries has fallen by 27% since 2000, it added. The International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern Worldwide, and Welthungerhilfe compiled the index. The 2015 Global Hunger Index (GHI) listed three African nations as the ones with the highest levels of severe hunger: Central African Republic, Chad and Zambia.