Global Food Security Index 2021
Source : Indian Express
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What is discussed under Global Food Security Index 2021 ?

1. Key Facts
2. About Global Food Security Index

Why in News ?

India is ranked at 71st position in the Global Food Security (GFS) Index 2021 of 113 countries of 113 countries. 

Key Facts

• India held 71st position with an overall score of 57.2 points on the GFS Index 2021 of 113 countries.
• India’s score improved only by 2.7 points to 57.2 in 2021 from 54.5 in 2012.

  

• Comparing with Other Nations
  • 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.
  • Pakistan (75th position), Sri Lanka (77th Position), Nepal (79th position) and Bangladesh (84th position). But the country was way behind China (34th position).
  • The country lags behind its neighbours Pakistan and Sri Lanka in terms food affordability.
  • Point change Pakistan by 9 points (to 54.7 in 2021 from 45.7 in 2012) while that of Nepal by 7 points (to 53.7 points in 2021 from 46.7 points in 2012) and Bangladesh by 4.7 points (to 49.1 in 2021 from 44.4 points in 2012).
• Global Scenario
  • GFS Index 2021 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.
  • Food systems remain vulnerable to economic, climatic, and geopolitical shocks.
  • Action is imperative at all levels–local, national, and global–to end hunger and malnourishment and ensure food security for all.
  • 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.

About Global Food Security Index

• The GFS Index was designed and constructed by London-based Economist Impact and is sponsored by Corteva Agriscience.
• The 2021 GFSI is the tenth edition of the index.
• It is published every year.
• GFS Index measures the underlying drivers of food security in 113 countries. 
• Calculation Based on the factors of
  1. Affordability
  2. Availability
  3. Quality
  4. Safety
  5. Natural resources and resilience.
• Suggestions
  • It considers 58 unique food security indicators including income and economic inequality.
  • Calling attention to systemic gaps and actions needed to accelerate progress toward United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger by 2030.

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