Increasing the Resilience of the Food Systems
In Islamic States in Face of Future Food Crises
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Figure 10: Global Food Security Index - Resilience Category Regional Performance72
Source: Analysis based on the Global Food Security Index
As the table shows, the top 10 countries in the GFSI natural resources and resilience category
are all European. However, it’s worth noting that, of the top 10 countries in availability,
affordability, quality and safety, only France and Switzerland also feature in natural resources
and resilience top 10. The lowest scores for most of the top countries are in water, with some of
the top countries’ water scores—France, Austria, and Portugal—below the global average.
Slovakia tops the list in the natural resources and resilience category due to its innovative
approaches to resilience, which includes the development of an early-warning system for
climate risks and its water valuation program to counteract and mitigate drought.
Table 7: Global Food Security Index - Resilience Category Top Countries
Global
Ranking
Country Overall
Score
Exposure Water Land Oceans Sensitivity Adaptive
Capacity
Demographic
Stresses
1 Slovakia 81.7 71.5 60.8 89.9 100.0 63.2 100.0 87.5
2 Denmark 81.5 68.8 92.1 82.6 71.3 73.1 100.0 80.1
3 Czech
Republic
80.9 69.1 57.4 86.4 100.0 84.6 91.7 86.5
4 Austria 80.2 69.5 54.0 86.3 100.0 70.7 100.0 82.5
5 Hungary 79.2 72.4 56.5 88.4 100.0 70.5 83.3 93.1
6 Switzerland 78.5 66.5 62.4 78.5 100.0 67.0 100.0 72.6
7 Poland 77.7 70.4 59.3 82.9 81.4 73.3 91.7 92.1
8 Sweden 77.3 74.2 68.1 77.1 71.5 67.6 100.0 72.9
9 France 76.0 75.0 54.6 90.2 45.6 81.2 100.0 79.2
10 Germany 75.7 70.2 53.1 82.8 65.1 72.9 100.0 84.5
Global
Average
62.2 63.3 55.0 82.9 59.7 54.0 58.1 58.4
Source: The Global Food Security Index
The table below gives an overview of the scores of the lowest 10 performing countries in the
natural resources and resilience category, according to the Global Food Security Index. As the
table shows, six of the 10 countries are OICmembers, and four of them are alsoGulf Cooperation
Council countries. Both Yemen and Saudi Arabia face severe dust storms and sandstorms, which
cause serious agricultural losses, while Oman faces severe droughts. Both Peru and Ecuador
72 Note that OIC data is included in the Appendix
0
20
40
60
80
100
Exposure
Water
Land
Oceans Sensitivity
Adaptive Capacity
Demographic Stresses
Europe
North America
Sub-Saharan
Africa
Asia & Pacific
Central & South
America
Middle East &
North Africa