Pakistan Food Security

World Food Day Origins
•In November 1979, World Food Day (WFD) was
launched by FAO's Member Countries on its 20th
General Conference.

•Hungarian Minister of Agriculture and Food, Dr.
Pal Romany floated the idea of celebrating the
WFD across the world.

•Since then this day has been observed every
year in more than 150 countries, highlighting
awareness of the issues behind poverty and
Hunger.
Research and Presentation by: TARIQ SARWAR AWAN

•Encourage rise in agricultural food production
and to stimulate national, bilateral,
multilateral and non-governmental efforts for
food to every one.

•encourage economic and technical cooperation
among developing countries


•encourage the participation of rural
people, particularly women and the least
privileged categories, in decisions and
activities influencing their living conditions

•Toincrease public awareness of the
problem of hunger in the world


• To increase public awareness of the problem
of hunger in the world

• Strengthen international and national
solidarity in the struggle against hunger,
malnutrition and poverty.


1981/1982: Food Comes First
1983: Food Security
1984: Women in Agriculture
1985: Rural Poverty
1986: Fishermen & Fishing Communities

1987: Small Farmers
1988: Rural Youth
1989: Food and the Environment
1990: Food for the Future


 1991: Trees for Life
 1992: Food and Nutrition
 1993: Harvesting Nature's Diversity
 1994: Water for Life
 1995: Food for All
 1996: Fighting Hunger and Malnutrition
 1997: Investing in Food Security
 1998: Women Feed the World
 1999: Youth Against Hunger
 2000: A Millennium Free from Hunger

 2001: Fight Hunger to Reduce Poverty
 2002: Water Source of Food Security
 2003: Working together for an international
Alliance against Hunger
 2004: Biodiversity for Food Security
 2005: Agriculture and Intercultural Dialogue
 2006: Investing in Agriculture for Food
Security
 2007: The Right to Food
 2008: The Challenge of Climate change
& Bioenergy
 2009: Achieving Food Security in Times of Crisis
 2010: United Against Hunger


has been chosen as this year’s World Food Day
theme to shed some light on this trend and
what can be done to mitigate its impact on the
most vulnerable.
On World Food Day 2011, let us look seriously
at what causes swings in food prices, and do
what needs to be done to reduce their impact
on the weakest members of global society.

HUNGER

 Hunger is exclusion – exclusion from the land,
from income, jobs, wages, life and citizenship.
When a person gets to the point of not having
anything to eat, it is because all the rest has
been denied. This is a modern form of exile. It is
death in life…(Josue de Castro)

 Of the 925 million people suffering from chronic
hunger, 98 % live in the Developing World.
Hunger, poverty and food prices are inter linked.
Not every poor person is hungry, but almost all
hungry people are poor.


FOOD SECURITY (definitions)
“Ensuring that all people at all times have both
physical and economic access to the basic food that
they need”.
or
“Access of all people at all times to enough food for
an active, healthy life”.
HENCE

“Food security [is] a situation that exists when all
people, at all times, have physical, social and
economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious
food that meets their dietary needs and food
preferences for an active and healthy life”.


 With an estimated increase of 105 million
hungry people in the year 2009, there are
now 1.02 billion malnourished individual
across the world. almost one sixth of entire
human race suffering from hunger.
 Poverty and hunger are interlinked
recent report from the Finization manifests
that there are more than 1 billion people
around the world who suffer from hunger
everyday


 This report is not only alarming but also
disheartening to think that while some of us
waste food on the table, a big number of people
have not a single chunk of food on their plate.

 Of the 925 million people suffering from chronic
hunger, 98% of the affected are from developing
world.

 Not every poor person is hungry, but almost all
hungry people are poor.


CONSTITUTION OF PAKISTAN
 Article 38 (d) of the Constitution of Pakistan
ensures provision of basic necessities of life
including food for the citizens of Pakistan. It says:

“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”.


COMPONENTS OF FOOD SECURITY

1.Food availability

2.Access to food

3.Food utilization or absorption

4.Equity of food distribution


 Land and water are important natural resources for
mankind. The demand for food, fiber, and shelter is
increasing with the continuous increase in the world
population.

 More than 90% of rice and 43% of wheat in the
world is produced and consumed in Asia.

 new varieties and chemical fertilizers, during the
green revolution of the 1960s, resulted in increase
in crop yields.


 Agriculture in Pakistan is irrigated with 82 percent of
cultivated area. During the last 46 years, the area
with irrigation facilities increased from 8.21 to 18.0
million hactares, at an average annual rate of 1.7
percent.
 Most of the increase is in canal and tube well
irrigation.

 About 14.57 million ha is presently served by Indus
River irrigation system, this canal irrigation system is
the largest integrated irrigation network in the world.


 It has 3 major reservoirs, 19 barrages,12 inter-river
link canals, 43 independent irrigation canal
commands and some 58,500 km of main canal.

 Agriculture is considered the mainstay of Pakistan’s
economy. According to the Economic Survey of
Pakistan 2001-2002, nearly one-fourth of total
output of the GDP and 44 per cent of total
employment is generated in agriculture.

 67% of Pakistan rural population is employed for
Agriculture for their living.


THE ECONOMY AND AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE

Pakistan is low-income developing country
with a per capita income of US$ 443. The country
has made significant progress in about 65 years
since independence in 1947, when it was a
predominantly agricultural economy. The economy
has been considerably diversified since 1947.e.g.
Wheat production fluctuated between 14.56 million
tons in 1990-91 to 21.5 m.tons in 2005-06. and
almost doubled in present.


EVOLUTION OF ECONOMY IN PAKISTAN

 The Evolution may be led in 6 Periods:

 PERIOD 1: 1947 - 1958

 PERIOD 2: 1958 - 1971

 PERIOD 3: 1971 - 1977

 PERIOD 4: 1977 – 1988

 PERIOD 5: 1989 – 1999

 PERIOD 6: Till to date

 Average annual growth in real gross domestic
product (GDP)Decreased considerably (from 6.1
percent in the 80s) to 4.6 percent in the 90s

mainly due to poor performance of the
manufacturing, services and agriculture sectors,

so the growth of Agriculture and production is

very important for growth and food security.


FOOD SECURITY STATUS IN PAKISTAN

 Food Availability
 Access to Food
 Equity of Food Distribution
 Household Food Security
 Utilization


GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES FOR ENSURING
FOOD SECURITY

The Government’s main policy objectives
are to bring about:
 Economic growth with adjustment
 Increase savings and investment
 Improve physical infrastructure facilitating
human resources
 Development with emphasis on poverty
alleviation
 Agriculture is playing a critical role in
achieving these objectives


GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES FOR ENSURING
FOOD SECURITY

 Achieve food self-sufficiency
 Poverty Reduction
 Productivity Enhancement Program.
 Irrigation subsector
 Promoting Export of Agriculture
commodities of Pakistan


ROLE OF U.N.O. & DONOR AGENCIES

Role and Support of UNO agencies:
 The UN established in 1998 a Thematic Group on
Food Security and Rural Development. The active
members of the group are UNDP, WFP, WHO,
UNFPA, UNICEF and ILO with FAO in the chair.
The group has targeted the issues of Food
Security in Pakistan from different dimensions


ADEQUACY OF FOOD SUPPLY

Sustainable & Efficient Utilization of the Natural
Resources:

 Land
 Water

Proper Application of Physical Inputs

 Seed
 Fertilizer
 Credit
 Plant protection

Productivity Enhancement of Major Food Crops

 Wheat

 Rice

 Maize

 Oil Seed


ACCESS TO FOOD

 Identification and Targeting the Food Insecure People

 Enhancing Productivity of Small Farmers for Poverty
Alleviation

 Diversification of On-Farm and Off Farm Income
Generation Activities

 Stabilization of Input and Output Prices

 Encouragement of Small Enterprises


EQUITY OF FOOD DISTRIBUTION

 Inter-Regional Inequity

 Urban and Rural Disparity

 Distribution of Land and Access to the

Resources and Inputs

 Gender Inequity

 Skill Development and Exposure to the
Development


IMPROVING THE NUTRITIONAL ASPECTS OF FOOD

 Vegetable and Pulses Production

 Rural Poultry and Rearing of Small
Ruminants

 Inland Fisheries


SUPPORTING REQUIREMENTS
 Removing Policy Distortion

 Provision of Rural Infrastructure

 Credit and Rural Finance

 Human Resource Development

 Research and Extension Support Services


CONCLUSION

We are proud nation that we are blessed with
every climate and we have all the resources for
growth to be utilized by us, affordability of Food
security possibilities are ample in Pakistan, so we
have to manage and work hard. We have all the
gravity based irrigation, only in rare parts of the
country, motorized irrigation is required.


Theme of World Food day next year
2012

CALORIES
IN FOOD


ALL OF YOU PLEASE
JOIN HANDS WITH ME
FOR

GREATER
PAKISTAN
DEVELOPMENT
EFFORTS

MALIK TARIQ SARWAR AWAN
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You also play your role to join hands with me make Pakistan a

Greater Pakistan

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TAHNKS FOR BEING PATIENT, PAKISTAN WILL SOON DEVELOP

, We will work together for our Nation.

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