Global politics don't feel particularly cooperative at the moment, but which countries could actually feed themselves independently if all international food trade shut down?
Just one, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Göttingen in Germany and the University of Edinburgh analyzed food production data from 186 countries. The findings revealed that Guyana is the only country that can be entirely self-sufficient in all seven key food groups that the study focused on.
China and Vietnam were the runners-up, producing enough food to meet their populations' needs in six out of the seven categories.
Just one in seven countries hits the quota in five or more food groups, while more than a third are self-sufficient in two or fewer groups. Six countries – Afghanistan,