Above is a really neat inter­ac­tive map dis­trib­uted by the Inter­na­tional Food Pol­icy Insti­tute. You can drag and drop the marker to any coun­try and find the coun­tries 2009 Hunger Index.

On this years report, the IFPI is call­ing on pol­icy mak­ers world­wide to con­sider how their deci­sions will effect the poor. The food and eco­nomic crises of the past year has had great impacts on the poor, greater than any­one else. So the IFPI asks world lead­ers to con­sider how their efforts to work out of the crises will impact the poor.

From the IFPI web­site, comes a sum­mary of this year’s Global Hunger Index find­ings, you can down­load a pdf or the report from here.

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) shows that world­wide progress in reduc­ing hunger remains slow. The 2009 global GHI has fallen by only one quar­ter from the 1990 GHI. South­east Asia, the Near East and North Africa, and Latin Amer­ica and the Caribbean have reduced hunger sig­nif­i­cantly since 1990, but the GHI remains dis­tress­ingly high in South Asia, which has made progress since 1990, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where progress has been marginal.

Some coun­tries achieved note­wor­thy progress in improv­ing their GHI. Between the 1990 GHI and the 2009 GHI, Kuwait, Tunisia, Fiji, Malaysia, and Turkey had the largest per­cent­age improve­ments. Angola, Ethiopia, Ghana, Nicaragua, and Viet­nam saw the largest absolute improve­ments in their scores.

Nonethe­less, 29 coun­tries have lev­els of hunger that are alarm­ing or extremely alarm­ing. The coun­tries with the high­est 2009 GHI scores are Burundi, Chad, the Demo­c­ra­tic Repub­lic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. In most of the coun­tries with high GHI scores, war and vio­lent con­flict have given rise to wide­spread poverty and food inse­cu­rity. Nearly all of the coun­tries in which the GHI rose since 1990 are in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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