According to Newspaper of azad kashmir Pakistan ranked
97th in a list of 125 countries with regard to availability, quality and
affordability of food and dietary health, according to a new ranking released
by Oxfam,. The listing means Pakistan is one of the countries with the most
unhealthy and scarce food. The index looked at the percentage of underweight
children, food diversity and access to clean water, as well as negative health
outcomes such as obesity and diabetes. India got the same rank as Pakistan.
African nations, along with Laos (112), Bangladesh (102), were predominant in
the bottom 30 countries.
Chad came in last on the list, behind Ethiopia and
Angola, in the food index. Burundi (119), Yemen (121), Madagascar (122) and
India have the worst rates of nutrition and the most underweight children,
according to Oxfam. The Netherlands nudged past France and Switzerland as the
country with the most nutritious, plentiful and healthy food, while the United
States and Japan failed to make it into the top 20. “The Netherlands have
created a good market that enables people to get enough to eat. Prices are
relatively low and stable and the type of food people are eating is balanced,”
Deborah Hardoon, a senior researcher at Oxfam who compiled the results, said in
an interview. “They’ve got the fundamentals right and in a way that is better
than most other countries all over the world.”
According to Newspaper of azad kashmir European countries dominated the
top of the ranking but Australia squeezed into the top 12, tying with Ireland,
Italy, Portugal and Luxembourg at No. 8. The United Kingdom failed to make the
top 10, tying for the 13th spot, because of the volatility of its food prices
compared to other goods, which Oxfam said is on a level with Peru (51), Malta
(33) and Kyrgyzstan (65). Although the United States has the most affordable
and good quality food, high levels of obesity and diabetes pushed the nation
into 21st place in the ranking, tying with Japan, which scored poorly on the
relative price of food compared to other goods.
Oxfam said the latest figures
show 840 million people go hungry every day, despite there being enough food
for the hungry. It called for changes in the way food is produced and
distributed around the world. The causes of hunger, it added, include a lack of
investment in infrastructure in developing nations and in small-scale
agriculture, security, prohibitive trading agreements, biofuel targets that
divert crops from food to fuel and the impact of climate change. Newspaper of azad kashmirquoted that climate change could raise the number of people at risk of hunger
by 20 to 50 percent by 2050, according to the group.
“This index quite clearly
indicates that despite the fact of there being enough food in the world we are
still not able to feed everybody in all the countries around the world,” said
Hardoon. “If we had a more equal distribution of wealth and resources, and
particularly food, this wouldn’t be a problem,” she added. Oxfam compiled the
data between October and December 2013 using the latest information from the
World Health Organisation, the Food and Agriculture Foundation, the
International Labour Organisation and other international organisations.
index
provides a snapshot based on the relative differences in various countries
based on the number of factors. But Hardoon said it is not the comprehensive
picture of any one nation.For more news kindly visit
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