Boxes filled with colourfull fruit and vegatables. South Africa has been ranked as the number one country, out of all sub-Saharan countries, when it came to the quality and safety of the food produced. Picture Henk Kruger/African News Agency (ANA)
South Africa high on food safety, quality index
By Goitsemang Tlhabye
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Pretoria - The ninth edition of the 2020 Global Food Security Index has ranked South Africa as the number one country, out of all sub-Saharan countries, when it came to the quality and safety of the food produced.
The index was designed and constructed by the Economist Intelligence Unit to consider the issues of food affordability, availability, quality and safety, and natural resources and resilience across 113 developing and developed countries.
iAfrica Unathi Mhlatyana, Managing Director at McCain Foods South Africa 46 mins ago 3 min read
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Unathi Mhlatyana, MD at McCain Foods South Africa, unpacks the results of the 2020 Global Food Security Index (GFSI) report
South Africa ranked 69 out of 113 countries in the recently released
2020 Global Food Security Index (GFSI) report after being ranked two places higher last year. The country’s top score was 72.4% for food quality and safety, followed by affordability at 63.1%, availability at 49.5% and the lowest score at 49% for natural resources and resilience.
Positively, South Africa ranked number one out of the sub-Saharan countries when it came to the quality and safety of food. This is incredibly important to McCain with its food being harvested locally at its peak
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.
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