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Nigeria has been ranked 86 in the latest Global Food
Security Index (GFSI) reports made available to NaijaAgroNet.
The indexing which cut across three core categories, namely
the affordability, availability, quality and safety.
The GFSI published by Intelligence Unit of The Economist, also
ranked Nigeria 84 in the quality and safety index.
The ranking, NaijaAgroNet gathered showed that
Nigeria scored 38.7 per cent in category
scores to emerge 84 in ranking, while within the availability scores, Nigeria
was ranked 62, scoring 47.8 category score, even as in the affordability
ranking category, Nigeria got 105 with 15.1 score.
All these brought about total ranking of Nigeria at 86,
among the 107 countries indexed within the latest review with 33 scores.
According to The Economist, Nigeria's strength was defined
as any indicator score above 75.0; in the prevalence of undernourishment,
intensity of food deprivation and volatility of agricultural production.
Whereas the challenges where found in presence of food
safety net programmes, public expenditure on agricultural research and
development (R&D) in addition to corruption.
NaijaAgroNet
recalls that currently Nigeria's Gross Domestic Products (GDP) stood at 283.3
billion; population at 170.1 million; Land Area at 910,770 sq km; prevalence of
undernourishment 8.5 per cent.