GLOBALLY sourced data suggests that Malaysia food security urgently requires national level, interagency and multi-prong strategic response.
Global Food Security Index (GFSI) is a comprehensive, rigorous, well-structured framework and rich data source for visualisation, analysis, and understanding food security drivers across countries and time.
The index, developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit with a panel of international food security experts, has existed since 2012.
The GFSI model comprises four critical dimensions - availability, affordability, quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience.
Each dimension further breaks down into a series of indicators that evaluate various programmes, policies and practices unanimously recognised by global experts as the key food security drivers.