book chapter

Policy recommendations

by Klaus von Grebmer,

Jill Bernstein,

Naomi Hossain,

Tracy Brown,

Nilam Prasai,

Yisehac Yohannes,

Fraser Patterson,

Andrea Sonntag,

Sophia-Maria Zimmerman,

Olive Towey and

Connell Foley

global hunger index | 2017 | Pages: 2

Publisher(s): international food policy research institute (ifpri)welthungerhilfeconcern worldwide

DOI : https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292710_04

Open Access | CC BY-NC-ND-4.0

Citation

von Grebmer, Klaus; Bernstein, Jill; Hossain, Naomi; Brown, Tracy; Prasai, Nilam; Yohannes, Yisehac; Patterson, Fraser; Sonntag, Andrea; Zimmerman, Sophia-Maria; Towey, Olive; and Foley, Connell. 2017. Policy recommendations. In 2017 Global Hunger Index: The inequalities of hunger. Chapter 4 Pp 30-31. Washington, D.C.; Bonn; and Dublin: International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe, and Concern Worldwide. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896292710_04

Although enough food is produced globally to feed the world, hunger persists—largely the product of various and severe inequalities. Yet neither hunger nor inequality is inevitable; both are rooted in uneven power relations that often are perpetuated and exacerbated by laws, policies, attitudes, and practices.