Description:
The Global Food Security Index ( provides a common framework for understanding the root causes of food insecurity by looking at the dynamics of food systems around 113 countries The GFSI comprises 26 indicators grouped under 4 categorizes
affordability, availability, quality and safety and natural resources and resilience.

Structure and Computation

The index construct scores for each of the 26 indicators, placing them onto a common scale where 0 indicates worst performance and 100 indicates best performance The resulted scores are then multiplied by weights and added together to produce scores at the levels of the issue categories and the final GFSI