{"id":568580,"date":"2025-11-21T18:43:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=568580"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:43:28","slug":"the-only-country-self-sufficient-in-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-only-country-self-sufficient-in-food\/","title":{"rendered":"The only country self-sufficient in food"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baba Tabita\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span>A woman prepares bread in Tanzania, a country with insufficient production of fish, vegetables, and meatBaba Tabita\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Only one country in the world produces the seven basic foods in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of its population: Guyana, one of the smallest countries in South America. According to a study by the University of G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, that analyzed food production in 186 countries, China and Vietnam came in second, producing enough food to meet the needs of their populations in six of seven categories (fruits; vegetables; dairy; fish; meat; nuts and seeds; and starchy staples). Six countries\u2014Afghanistan, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Macau, Qatar, and Yemen\u2014have failed to achieve self-sufficiency in any food group. Brazil has done so in five categories\u2014the two missing were vegetables and fish. The study found that many countries still rely on a single trading partner for more than half of their food imports. \u201cHeavy reliance on imports from single countries can leave nations vulnerable,\u201d Jonas Stehl, an economist at the University of G\u00f6ttingen, told the website ScienceAlert<\/em> (Nature Food<\/em><\/a>, May 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guyana is the only country in the world that produces enough basic food to sustain its own population","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[251,260],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-568580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-nutrition","tag-public-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568580"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570170,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568580\/revisions\/570170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568580"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=568580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}