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  • Online resource | 12 Dec 2023

Vulnerability to Global Market Shocks V.2: Price Shocks to Major Staple Foods

Global Food and Nutrition Security

This new Food Security Portal tool provides a simple measure of vulnerability to international price shocks for each country and each major food commodity. The basic idea is to quantify vulnerability by evaluating the risk of higher food insecurity in countries due to a rise in the international price of a food commodity such as rice or wheat. The Vulnerability Dashboard provides a composite indicator comparable across countries, with three components:

  • Share of calories that the food commodity represents in the national diet.
  • Share of national consumption of the commodity that comes from imports.
  • Share of the population that is food insecure.