{"id":261904,"date":"2024-12-07T02:23:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T02:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/07\/false-ghana-7th-not-3rd-most-food-secure-african-country\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T02:23:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T02:23:17","slug":"false-ghana-7th-not-3rd-most-food-secure-african-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/12\/07\/false-ghana-7th-not-3rd-most-food-secure-african-country\/","title":{"rendered":"False! Ghana 7th not 3rd, most food-secure African country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_42\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\"><strong>Claim: <\/strong>At the final rally of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Dec. 5, 2024, the flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, said: \u201cIf you ranked the countries by food security, Ghana is number three in Africa in all the 54 countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10099 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ghana.dubawa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FALSE-4-2-2.png?resize=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"55\" data-attachment-id=\"10099\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/ghana.dubawa.org\/viral-mahama-election-rigging-audio-suspicious\/false-4-2-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ghana.dubawa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FALSE-4-2-2.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"132,55\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FALSE-4-2-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ghana.dubawa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FALSE-4-2-2.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ghana.dubawa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/FALSE-4-2-2.png?fit=132%2C55&amp;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-background\"><strong>Verdict:<\/strong>\u00a0False!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verification:\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a0Global Food Security Index, which evaluates 113 countries based on the affordability, availability, quality, and safety of food, ranked Ghana 7th in Africa in its last report in 2022. Meanwhile, the country ranks 83rd globally with an overall score of 52.6.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the claim is false.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0Ghana Fact-Checking Coalition<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim: At the final rally of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on Dec. 5, 2024, the flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, said: \u201cIf you ranked the countries by food security, Ghana is number three in Africa in all the 54 countries.\u201d Verdict:\u00a0False! Verification:\u00a0The\u00a0Global Food Security Index, which evaluates 113 countries based on the affordability, availability, quality, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>False! 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