climate change presents; (ii) information on the geography of the impacts and help to evaluate the
relative beneﬁts of mitigation and adaptation responses.
The index is not intended to be a detailed planning tool, but aims to help planners evaluate the
nature of the top-level threat to food insecurity that climate change presents, thereby supporting
prioritization of effort.
The HCVI consists of three equally weighted components: exposure to climate-related hazards,
sensitivity of national agricultural production to climate-related hazards, and adaptive capacity—
a measure of a country’s ability to cope with climate-related food shocks. The sensitivity and
adaptive capacity components are based on data from the World Bank, World Resources Institute,