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Global Food Security Index 2016
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Global Food Security Index 2016

An Annual Measure of the State of Global Food Security

EIU, 2016

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Innovative

Recommendation

The 2016 edition of the Global Food Security Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit reveals that food security worldwide continues to make advances, mostly driven by rising incomes. But affordability and availability remain significant problems for policy makers and private-sector organizations to address. Political instability often begets food insecurity, and climate change portends unpredictable effects on food supplies. getAbstract recommends the EIU’s useful compendium of information to analysts, government officials and others concerned about trends in agricultural production, distribution, quality and prices.

Take-Aways

  • The Global Food Security Index measures three components: “affordability, availability and utilization.”
  • Since 2012, a majority of countries have improved their food security.
  • Globally, “food affordability peaked in 2014–2015” but declined in 2016.

About the Author

The Economist Intelligence Unit is an independent research and analysis organization.


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