Ranking nations on food sustainability
"The objectives of the FSI are not only to highlight the performance of countries, but to establish a comparable benchmark, to offer examples of best practices at the national and city levels, and to measure progress over time," writes Francesca Allievi, Marta Antonelli, and Katarzyna Dembska in a post on Food Tank.
"A food system does not sit in isolation, and a large number of stakeholders act together according to dynamics created by specific drivers. These include biophysical elements and constraints, innovation and research, political and economic inputs, socio-cultural aspects, and demographic issues," the researchers say. "When scaling this picture to the regional, national, continental and global level, it becomes increasingly complex, creating a high level of uncertainty when trying to assess the interaction among its parts."
The index analyzes the 20 countries in the G20, which maintain the largest economies and contain two-thirds of the global population, as well as 5 nations from regions otherwise unrepresented, using 58 different indicators to measure sustainability. FSI identified France, Japan, and Canada as the top-scoring countries. The top-score earner, France, maintains a holistic policy response to food waste and nutrition issues.
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