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- Recently, the Global Food Security index 2021 was released by Economist Impact and Corteva Agriscience.
- It is the tenth edition of the index.
About Global Food Security Index (GFSI)
- It considers the issues of food affordability, availability, quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience across a set of 113 countries.
- The index is a dynamic quantitative and qualitative benchmarking model constructed from 58 unique indicators that measure the drivers of food security across both developing and developed countries.
- It calls attention to systemic gaps and actions needed to accelerate progress toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030.
- This edition of the GFSI incorporates the “Natural Resources and Resilience” category into the main index.
- This category assesses a country’s exposure to the impacts of a changing climate; its susceptibility to natural resource risks; and how the country is adapting to these risks, all of which impact the incidence of food insecurity in a country.
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Major Highlights of Index
- Top Rankers:
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- Ireland, Australia, the UK, Finland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, Japan, France and the US shared the top rank with the overall GFS score in the range of 77.8 and 80 points on the index.
- India’s Ranking:
- India is ranked at 71st position with an overall score of 57.2 points but the country lags behind its neighbours Pakistan and Sri Lanka in terms of food affordability.
- Overall, India fared better than Pakistan (75th position), Sri Lanka (77th Position), Nepal (79th position) and Bangladesh (84th position). But the country was way behind China (34th position).
- Issues:
- The findings of the GFS Index 2021 also showed that global food security has decreased for the second year in a row after seven years of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal of achieving zero hunger by 2030.
- The index shows that, while countries have made significant strides toward addressing food insecurity in the past ten years, food systems remain vulnerable to economic, climatic, and geopolitical shocks.
- Suggestions:
- Action is imperative at all levels–local, national, and global–to end hunger and malnourishment and ensure food security for all.
- The Index shows that to meet these present and emerging future challenges requires that investments in food security are sustained – from innovation in climate-resilient crop yields to investing in programs to assist the most vulnerable.
What is Food Security?
Importance of Food Security
Challenges to Food Security in India
Indian Initiatives For Food Safety and Security
Way Forward
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Source: IE
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