Contents

A Visual Data Exploration Research Project to Better Understand the Nuances of Our Global Nutrition

Part 1 — Introduction and Overview ← Selected page
Part 2 — Literature Review
Part 3 — Data Exploration
Part 4 — Research Area 1: General Trend
Part 5 — Research Area 2: Most Successful Countries
Part 6 — Research Area 3: Surprising Trends
Part 7 — Research Area 4: Most Influential Indicator
Part 8 — Recommendations and Conclusions

Our World today has many issues, and the Prevalence of Undernourishment is just one of them. Over the past twenty years, the United Nations, through the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), has collected data on many countries, and have helped to influence and improve their Undernourishment overall.

This report, and the associated Data Exploration App, looks to explore the data provided by the FAO, and to understand it’s nuances, to learn what information it is telling us, and to derive meaning from it. The research activities undertaken focus on four key areas: 1) General Trends; 2) Most Successful Countries; 3) Surprising Trends; and 4) The Most Influential Indicator. This report embarks on an exploratory data analysis through the narratives told by this data.

Resultingly, there are three key recommendations provided by this report:

The result thereof, will enable the empowerment of individual communities to look to improve their economic situation, which will scale to individual countries trends, and also to broader regional trends. The analysis finds that indicators which have the most influence on the Prevalence of Undernourishment are the value of food production, dietary adequacy, protein supply, political stability, and the value of food imports. Therefore, by looking to address these features at a community level, these recommendations aim to make a positive impact on the future trends of the Prevalence of Undernourishment.

The United Nations (UN) has placed a lot of emphasis on their Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) (UN 2020a). One of which is Goal 2: Zero Hunger (UN 2020b), from which the UN has set up the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO 2020a). This organisation has embarked on a journey to help understand and address the worlds needs for access to food. One of the indicators that they have set up is the Prevalence of Undernourishment (FAO 2020b), which is defined as “an estimate of the proportion of the population whose habitual food consumption is insufficient to provide the dietary energy levels that are required to maintain a normal active and healthy life” (FAO 2020b).

This report is complemented by an online application which takes an interactively visual exploration through the data provided by the FAO. The App has been freely published, and accessible at the following locations:

There are four Areas of Research that will be explored in this analysis.

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