INFOGRAPHIC: How we eat at the global table | EurActiv

INFOGRAPHIC: How we eat at the global table | EurActiv

The Netherlands, France and Switzerland are the
three countries enjoying the planet’s cheapest, healthiest and most
plentiful diets according to a new Oxfam ‘Good Enough to Eat’ index,
while three African countries have the worst.

The Oxfam Food Index
measured the quality of people’s food by its diversity, their access to
safe drinking water, and the extent of unhealthy outcomes such as
diabetes and obesity levels.

Access to food were assessed by checking levels of malnutrition,
while affordability was measured by food price volatility and price
levels relative to other goods and services.

European countries occupy the entire top 20 except for one –
Australia - which ties in 8th place. African countries occupy the bottom
30 places in the table except for four – Laos, Bangladesh, Pakistan and
India.

>> Read our coverage: New global food table: Europe feasts while Africa fasts

Angola and Zimbabwe suffer the most volatile food prices, while the
US has some of the cheapest and most stable food prices. Burundi, Yemen,
Madagascar and India had the planet’s worst rates of malnutrition,
although Burundi and Cambodia were also among the best performers for
obesity and diabetes. The US, Mexico, Fiji, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia
scored the most poorly.