Determining Romania's Position in Europe According to the Optimized Global Food Security Index in 2018
This article aims to analyze how the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) has evolved across the European countries for the period 2012-2018. In this respect, we have taken as a starting point the Report of Global Food Security Index 2018 as well as the scientific literature from the main stream of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Academy of Economic Studies of Bucharest
2019-05-01
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| Series: | Amfiteatru Economic |
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| Online Access: | http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/temp/Article_2814.pdf |
| Summary: | This article aims to analyze how the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) has evolved across the
European countries for the period 2012-2018. In this respect, we have taken as a starting point
the Report of Global Food Security Index 2018 as well as the scientific literature from the main
stream of publications focusing on food security. The data presented were analyzed and
presented statistically, on the basis of which we prepared tables relevant to the proposed goal.
The aim of this research is to determine the most vulnerable countries in terms of food security.
We analyzed the evolution of the Global Food Security Index for the period 2012-2018, and
the subcategories of indicators underlying the determination of the overall GFSI index score:
food affordability, food availability, food quality and safety. We also looked at the adjustment
indicator data used to determine the GFSI index, natural resources and adaptability.
The natural resources and adaptive capacity indicator measure the exposure of a country to the
impact of a changing climate; its susceptibility to the risks of the natural resources and how a
country adapts to these risks. When applied, it acts as an adjustment factor for countries' food
security scores.
The originality of the paper is to build a globally optimized index for GFSI to provide a
comparative analysis of European countries in terms of food security, highlighting Romania's
position in this scientific approach.
The motivation for calculating the optimized global food security index lies in the fact that it
has only sub-indicators contributing to significant achievements, and its refining has gone
through mathematical processing that led to a more relevant hierarchy.
The indicator categories selected within this article are based on the analysis conducted by the
Economist Intelligence Unit, Research Division of The Economist that is the world leader in
global business intelligence in the above-mentioned report. On the basis of the analysis we
drew conclusions regarding the food security in Romania compared to the European countries |
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| ISSN: | 1582-9146 2247-9104 |