Just One Nation Produces Enough Food For Itself, Scientists Reveal

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 Gà¶ttingen 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…