Global Food Security Index(GFSI)
Indexing 3 core issues in 105 countries -
1)Affordability
2)Availability and
3)Quality and Safety
The study, covering 105 nations, put China at 38, while United States
and Democratic Republic of Congo respectively occupied the top and
bottom positions.
The study has put India at 66 and reveals that 19 % of India’s population does not receive the
minimum number of required calories for average person, resulting in
224.6 million undernourished people.
The undernourished in India
consume on average 240 calorie below the minimum daily requirement of
1780 calories per person per day recommended by the UN Food and
Agriculture Organization.
The GFSI 2012 also reveals that India spends just one per cent of its
agricultural Gross Domestic Product on related research, placing India
near the bottom of the 26 lower middle-income countries in the index
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