Strategic Priorities for Food System Strengthening and Transformation: Insights from the NGI Food System Index and Typology

High performing food systems are fundamental to prospects for achieving major global goals, particularly Zero Hunger. But hunger is on the march again due to climate shocks, COVID-19, and conflict, including the ongoing war in Ukraine. New Growth International (NGI) has created an Index and Typology of food systems to help answer fundamental questions about the performance of food systems and identify priorities for policy reform, institutional innovation, and investment toward food system transformation.

Video Overview: This 15-minute video provides a high-level overview of the rationale behind the construction of the Index and Typology, and how they can be applied to better understand food systems and make strong policy recommendations for food crisis response and longer-term food system strengthening and transformation.

Full Report: This deck is a deep dive into the methodology behind the Index and Typology, as well as in-depth analysis arising from their application, including a global ranking of food systems, food system performance benchmarks, and examples of food system performance scorecards from six country cases.

Overview Document: This 2-page document describes our approach to building the Index and Typology and outlines key findings.

NGI Food System Typology: This document shows the country placements in the typology.