Gaps in national food production, worldwide

shrubby

Nationalist food security, at least here in Finland, seems really paradoxical as the main focus seems to be animal production, with imported feed.

jemmyw

New Zealand appears to be missing from the map. Hard to know in this case if we're missing for the usual reason or because we have no food production gap.

pelcg

This makes me sad to see this. The economic implications of this is catastrophic and unfortunately people who are in the middle of warzones get squeezed and suffer from famines.

esperent

> Fish and seafood self-sufficiency is particularly low across most regions This seems like an impossible requirement to meet for landlocked countries. I didn't see how deep they go here: for example, Ireland ranked higher than I expected, because of a lot of dairy and meat production. But how much of the cattle feed is imported? According to this article, "Ireland imports around 80 percent of its animal feed, food, beverages, and other agri-food products". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Ireland I haven't examined the source link to see if that's fully accurate, but if it's even mostly true, and that import collapsed, it would be a catastrophe. It's not enough just to label a country as producer/not producer for a category but rather whether that production is fully stable and internalized in case of disasters/war. My guess is that the results in the study should look worse for many of the countries listed.

hagbard_c

I had a look at the maps in the article and noticed they somehow managed to forget the Netherlands, the #2 exporter of agricultural products in the world. This makes me wonder about the quality of the rest of the article given that Nature, once a journal of note has rapidly gone down the ideologically biased slide like many other publications and as such lost a lot of credibility.