Quantitative Baseline

  • Display score: 4/5
  • Continuous score: 60.6
  • Confidence: ESTIMATED
  • Data year: 2023
  • Sources: FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient, WRI Aqueduct
MetricTierRawNormalizedSourceYear
Water stressPRIMARY1.9760.6WRI Aqueduct2023
Fertilizer import dependencySUPPLEMENTARY0.3564.8FAOSTAT Fertilizers by Nutrient2023

Manual Draft Prompt

Write the full food section. Cover caloric base, cereal dependence, fertilizer exposure, water constraints, and how quickly food stress would become politically binding.

Qualitative Overlay Notes

  • TODO: capture any country-specific override to the scored baseline.
  • TODO: note whether this factor is the decisive constraint, a lagging variable, or mostly background context.
  • TODO: cross-link to the relevant chokepoint, bloc, or trade vulnerability that should anchor the prose.

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