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IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY IN PAKISTAN. Munawar Hussain Program Manager Punjab & AJK. The Micronutrient Initiative. UVAS LAHORE. FOOD SECURITY. FOOD SECURITY.

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  1. IMPROVING FOOD SECURITY IN PAKISTAN Munawar Hussain Program Manager Punjab & AJK The Micronutrient Initiative UVAS LAHORE

  2. FOOD SECURITY FOOD SECURITY “When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food and to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. Source: according to World Food Summit Food Access Availability of nutritious food Food Use UVAS LAHORE

  3. FOOD SECURITY • The main determinant of Food Security is Malnutrition • Low income families are more prone to Food Insecurity • (Nutrition Policy Guidance notes, 2013) • Food Insecurity principally connected to • Low production due to famine/natural disaster (eg. Flood) • Although, Famine instigate hunger and food insecurity, but famine is atypical concern • Low socio-economic status • Increasing prices of food UVAS LAHORE

  4. Few Among Several Consequences of Food Insecurity • Food Insecurity and hunger are social & moral problems that embarrass to our global society UVAS LAHORE

  5. Malnutrition Reduces Productivity!!!! Overall loss to the economy of 2.7 to 4.1% of GDP annually Source: “Economic Costs of Malnutrition” DFID UVAS LAHORE

  6. Nutritional Food Insecurity Status UVAS LAHORE

  7. Nutrition Throughout Life Cycle UVAS LAHORE

  8. Factors Prompting Food Insecurity Incompetent Supply Chain (Farm to Fork) 1 Factors Inducing ↑ food demand due to ↑ population 2 Food Insecurity ↑ food demand due to life style modification (↑ food loss) 3 Temporary climate changes 4 Price instabilities 5 Unsafe food and less human resource capacity 6 7 Inadequate production (not utilizing all resources) UVAS LAHORE

  9. Copenhagen Consensus & Food Security Top 10 investments for advancing global welfare UVAS LAHORE

  10. Food Security: Constitution of Pakistan Article 38 (d) ensures provision of basic necessities of life including food. “The State shall provide basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, housing, education and medical relief, for all citizens, irrespective of sex, caste, creed or race, as are permanently or temporarily unable to earn their livelihood on account of infirmity, sickness or unemployment” UVAS LAHORE

  11. Future Challenges to reduce Food Insecurity • Both supply-side and demand-side issues need to be addressed to ease food insecurity UVAS LAHORE

  12. Future Challenges to reduce Food Insecurity “Food security is possible well into the future. Science provides the tools, agricultural research the modality, intellectual insight the design of the next revolutions that will help smallholder farmers improve their square yard of earth, and help the world to keep pace with population growth” (Austin, nd) UVAS LAHORE

  13. Multi-sectoral Approach in addressingFood Insecurity UVAS LAHORE

  14. Policy Options: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene UVAS LAHORE

  15. Policy Options: Agriculture UVAS LAHORE

  16. Policy Options: Food UVAS LAHORE

  17. Policy Options- Education UVAS LAHORE

  18. Suggestions…!!! UVAS LAHORE

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