It may not be unavailability of food but its unaffordability that more often than not causes people to go hungry. A project by UN's World Food Programme (WFP) to compare the price of a simple plate of beans across 33 countries using New York as a base suggests that the most expensive meal is the one that is put together in crisis-stricken South Sudan, where locals need to pay more than what they earn to afford the basic meal.
A MEAL BEYOND MEANS
WFP found that the cost of the plate works out to $321.7 for people in South Sudan. In India, 4.5% of daily income goes behind organizing a single meal.
HOW THE COST OF A PLATE WAS CALCULATED
1. The price of a basic plate of food in a poorer part of the world was calculated and expressed as a percentage of average daily income
2. Then it was scaled up to show what a person in a rich country would have to pay, in proportion to their income, for an equivalent plate of food
3. It was found that while a New Yorker might expect to spend just 0.6% of her/his daily income on a simple bean stew, someone in South Sudan would need to spend 155% of their income 4. Or, if a New Yorker had to pay proportionally the same for a plate of beans, it would cost her/him US$321 [1][2][3][4]
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