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Figure 32. Undernourished People in the OIC by Sub-Regions
Source: Calculated by using FAOSTAT
At the sub- regional level, despite of the higher proportion of undernourishment in the African
Group, Asian Group has almost half of the total undernourished people in the OIC member
countries due to its high population. Figure 32 shows that as of 2014-2016, 98.6 million
undernourished people are expected to live in the Asian Group, which accounts for nearly 60
percent of undernourished population in the OIC.
3.2. Access
World Health Organization defines the food access as having sufficient resources to obtain
appropriate foods for a nutritious diet.15 Access dimension of food security is fully met when
all people in a country have all adequate resources needed to acquire sufficient nutritious and
safe food. Therefore, the concept of food accessibility encompasses several issues such as
affordability of individuals to purchase foods, distribution of income and consumption,
existence of nutritious goods in nearby grocery stores, sufficient and convenient
transportation nets to reach local food retailers.
In the FAO study of food security indicators, the access dimension of food security is measured
by various indicators such as percent of paved roads over total roads, road density, rail lines
density, gross domestic product per capita, domestic food price index, prevalence of
undernourishment, share of food expenditure of the poor, depth of the food deficit,
distribution of consumption and prevalence of food inadequacy.16
15 WHO, 2015
16 FAO, 2015b
55,4 54,7 54,6
5,8
11,8 15,1
106,7
113,7
98,9
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