Increasing the Resilience of the Food Systems
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suffer severe droughts, threatening water availability. Indonesia has the lowest score on land
due to its conversion of peatlands toexpand its production of palmoil. Because of conflict, Congo
has a score of a zero on adaptive capacity.73
Table 8: Global Food Security Index - Resilience Category Lowest Performing Countries
Global
Ranking
Country Overall
Score
Exposure Water Land Oceans Sensitivity Adaptive
Capacity
Demographic
Stresses
103 Singapore 50.3 39.2 40.4 76.5 57.5 48.7 41.7 62.8
105 Ecuador 49.5 33.9 60.8 81.9 39.8 54.7 33.3 59.3
106 Yemen 48.2 56.6 17.0 85.5 65.7 35.7 33.3 35.6
=107 Oman 46.9 46.3 35.7 87.9 45.2 41.6 41.7 13.4
=107 Saudi
Arabia
46.9 54.3 15.2 79.3 35.8 49.1 41.7 51.8
109 Bahrain 46.6 37.9 34.0 82.7 57.0 41.5 50.0 6.4
110 Congo
(Dem.
Rep.)
45.0 51.6 75.7 78.4 65.6 14.4 0.0 18.8
111 Indonesia 43.9 54.1 39.7 57.6 33.4 55.7 16.7 62.9
112 Peru 42.6 41.4 40.3 80.2 0.4 48.8 33.3 63.9
113 United
Arab
Emirates
40.7 46.0 16.6 66.6 16.5 55.7 33.3 59.2
Global
Average 62.2 63.3 55.0 82.9 59.7 54.0 58.1 58.4
Source: The Global Food Security Index
Food Insecurity Drivers – OIC Performance74
Given that six out of the 10 lowest performing countries on the resilience category are OIC
member countries, while OIC data is presented in the following chapter, an overview of OIC
performance in that area is presented in the following tables. According to the Global Food
Security Index, Turkey is the top performing OIC country in the GFSI natural resources and
resilience category. As the table below indicates, the overall score of all the top ten OIC countries
is higher than the global average score.
Table 9: Global Food Security Index - Resilience Category Top Performing OIC Countries
Global
Ranking
Country Overall
Score
Exposure Water Land Oceans Sensitivity Adaptive
Capacity
Demographic
Stresses
23 Turkey 70.2 67.2 44.4 92.8 64.3 57.4 91.7 61.2
24 Uganda 70.0 69.2 97.8 76.3 100.0 47.8 58.3 13.6
30 Burkina
Faso
68.5 66.6 67.0 84.1 100.0 36.7 75.0 22.4
35 Niger 67.8 51.6 68.0 77.0 100.0 49.4 91.7 9.4
36 Kazakhstan 67.7 62.5 34.5 83.3 86.0 54.8 83.3 66.5
38 Cote
d’Ivoire
67.5 78.5 84.4 80.7 54.7 43.3 66.7 34.8
46 Mali 64.6 60.5 70.8 80.2 100.0 42.1 58.3 20.7
49 Jordan 63.5 61.6 23.7 90.8 96.0 48.0 66.7 52.3
50 Pakistan 63.2 66.8 10.3 75.1 63.8 58.4 100.0 48.2
55 Uzbekistan 62.3 58.0 22.8 73.0 100.0 44.9 75.0 61.6
Global
Average
62.2 63.3 55.0 82.9 59.7 54.0 58.1 58.4
Source: The Global Food Security Index
73 The Economist Intelligence Unit. (2018). Global Food Security Index 2018: Building Resilience in the Face of Rising Food-
Security Risks. Retrieved
74 Data for Palestine is not available.