 Yet this progress has been uneven, and great disparities in hunger continue to exist at the regional, national, and subnational levels.The 2016 GHI emphasizes that the regions, countries, and populations most vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition have to be identified, so improvement can be targeted there, if the world community wants to seriously Sustainable Development Goal 2 on ending hunger and achieving food security.The chapter on hunger and conflict shows that the time of the great famines with more than 1 million people dead is over.