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