Alliance2015 releases the Global Hunger Index Peru 2025
On March 26, 2026, Alliance2015 – represented by Welthungerhilfe (WHH), Helvetas, and Ayuda en Accion – gathered in Lima to present the Global Hunger Index (GHI) Peru 2025, bringing together stakeholders from international cooperation, organized civil society, academia, the private sector, and multilateral organizations.
The results are not encouraging: Peru’s GHI has stalled. In 2025 the national score stands at 18.8 (same as 2008). Far from being a problem of the past, hunger remains as a structural challenge that demands urgent attention.
Why aren’t we making progress?
Carolina Trivelli, lead researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP) and former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion, offers in Peruvian newspaper La República some key insights: in Peru, food is not scarce, the problem is that people cannot afford to buy it. Income recovery since the pandemic has been slow and uneven, and social policies have failed to adapt to a new reality in which poverty now comes hand in hand with hunger.
Meanwhile, regions like Lima saw poverty rates nearly double between 2019 and the post-pandemic period, and in highland areas the income deficit is chronic. Macroeconomic growth, Trivelli notes, does not automatically translate into food on the table for the most vulnerable families.
A moment to act
Despite the difficult diagnosis, we believe this is a timely moment. The event convened a multi-stakeholder dialogue that surfaced concrete priorities: gaps in equitable food access, institutional fragmentation, the need for greater policy coherence, and the enormous potential of local solutions, from smallholder farmer initiatives to community kitchens as critical safety nets.
Reducing hunger is not a top-down process, nor a purely bottom-up one. It requires both: proven local practices, supported by coherent public policies that strengthen and scale them, policies designed not to look good on paper, but to deliver real impact.
A window of opportunity
Alliance2015 reaffirms its commitment to supporting dialogue, partnerships, and concrete solutions to reduce hunger in Peru. With the upcoming political cycle, the next five years represent a critical window to place food security higher on the national agenda. The evidence (best practices and successful experiences) exists. Now the challenge is to translate these into coordinated and scalable actions.
Download the reports:
- 20 Years of Monitoring: Time to Renew the Commitment to Zero Hunger — Full Report
- 20 Years of Monitoring: Time to Renew the Commitment to Zero Hunger — Executive Summary
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