Ranking the World's Food Security

摘要

Affordability, Availability, Quality and Safety, These are the three core issues that determine a country's "food security" in a new index released last year by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and sponsored by DuPont. The U.S., Denmark, France and the Netherlands rank as the most food-secure countries in the world. According to the EIU, "A combination of ample food supplies, high incomes, low spending on food relative to other outlays, and significant investment in agricultural research and development (R&D) put these countries at the top of the 105-nation index."