Author: Asmi Raza
Publisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788170245506
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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Author: Claudia Ringler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317661966
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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Pakistan’s water management is at a critical watershed. The world’s seventh-most populous country faces serious challenges that will require improvements in both the "hardware" and "software" of agricultural water management. Water shortages are growing rapidly as a result of growing demand across all water-using sectors. Rapid population growth, from 175 million people in 2010 to an estimated 236 million by 2030 and 280 million by 2050, and international food-price spikes create pressure to increase agricultural production of staples; but demand for cash crops is also growing rapidly, including for cotton, fruit trees and tobacco, to raise rural incomes and generate rural employment to absorb the relatively young, rapidly growing rural population. Water management is also increasingly affected by climate change – including an increased number of flood and drought events – and growing energy shortages, which affect how water is being sourced and used. Last but not least, Pakistan’s political situation is fragile, which has reduced incentives to invest in enhanced agricultural water (and other) technologies. How Pakistan addresses these challenges will be decisive for its population’s future water and food security, for economic growth, and for environmental sustainability. It will also affect water and food outcomes globally, due to the interconnectedness of global food trade. This book was published as a special issue of Water International.

Author: David J. Spielman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812294211
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Historically, agriculture has been crucial to Pakistan's economic growth and development and remains so even today. The sector employs almost half of the country's labor force, supplies key inputs to the country's manufacturing sector, generates a significant share of export earnings, and nourishes a rapidly growing population. Further, beyond agriculture is the wider rural economy, including nonfarm economic activities such as small enterprises, transport services, village retail shops, local schools, and clinics, all of which account for an estimated 40 to 57 percent of total rural household income. Given the importance of these rural activities, the slow growth of agriculture in recent years—averaging just 2.8 percent during the period 2010-2014—should be a source of concern for Pakistan. Can the country's agricultural sector and rural economy once again play a significant role in growth and development? Can it contribute to poverty reduction? Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan: Issues, Outlooks, and Policy Priorities seeks to answer these questions by examining the performance of both agriculture and the rural economy. The authors identify several measures that can promote agricultural productivity growth as well as wider economic and social development. These include increasing the efficiency of water use in the Indus river basin irrigation system, especially in the face of climate change; reforming policies and regulations that govern markets for agricultural inputs and commodities; and improving the provision of rural public services for health, education, women's empowerment, and community development. The analyses and conclusions in Agriculture and the Rural Economy in Pakistan will be of use to policy makers, development specialists, and others concerned with Pakistan's development. Contributors: Madiha Afzal, Nuzhat Ahmad, Faryal Ahmed, Mubarik Ali, Shujat Ali, Elena Briones Alonso, Hira Channa, Stephen Davies, Paul Dorosh, Gisselle Gajate Garrido, Arthur Gueneau, Madeeha Hameed, Brian Holtemeyer, Huma Khan, Katrina Kosec, Mehrab Malek, Sohail J. Malik, Shuaib Malik, Amina Mehmood, Dawit Mekonnen, Hina Nazli, Sara Rafi, Muhammad Ahsan Rana, Abdul Wajid Rana, Danielle Resnick, Khalid Riaz, Abdul Salam, Emily Schmidt, Asma Shahzad, David J. Spielman, James Thurlow, Ahmad Waqas, Edward Whitney, Fatima Zaidi.

Author: Harold Alderman
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896290999
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Based on a survey conducted on 800 households between 1986 and 1989.

Author: Asif Saeed Khan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food security
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The research seeks to identify the key actors in the Pakistani Wheat Value Chain (PWVC), the key relations among them, how these are governed, and to what effects. To understand the PWVC, the study focuses on the functioning of the wheat economy and its complex set of relations between actors. The wheat economy of Pakistan is also central to the nation's food security and is intimately entangled with the national politics. Thus, the case study of Pakistan's wheat economy offered an opportunity to explore the complexities of relationships among different actors at local, regional and national levels and to capture the multi-dimensional aspects of food insecurity. This study mainly focuses on the wheat farmers - who figure as the most important actor in the production and exchange processes of PWVC. This thesis adopts the chain politics framework, which highlighted the nature of the delicate balance of interests that keeps the power asymmetries from collapsing the chain. The main findings of the study specify that the wheat economy of Pakistan is embedded in a complex set of historically conditioned socio-economic, cultural and political institutions, many of which are linked to a colonial past. The formal and informal social and governmental institutions of the wheat economy are caught up in a set of power relations articulated by politically and socially dominant elites. Value chain framework was applied as the analytical tool to map key actors, their activities, relations among them, and the productive transformations of goods that occur between land and final consumption. The systemic inefficiencies of the wheat economy are drawn out by the governance structure derived from the value chain perspective. Further, two complementary approaches allowed a focus on the functioning of government institutions (formal institutions) in Pakistan, providing an insight into the informal wheat market institutions (local and regional social relations between actors). Specifically, this process offered an appreciative glance at the evolutionary societal structures of rural Pakistan. If anything, the research highlighted how the working of the chain is unmistakably intertwined with the affordability of wheat and its critical role in food insecurity situation in Pakistan.

Author: Golam Rasul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789291153299
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Author: World Bank. Agriculture and Rural Development Dept. Economics and Policy Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: Abid Hussain
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN: 9783843357500
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Food insecurity is the real problem in developing countries. Worldwide 800 million people are facing hunger and out of total, 299 million people are from South Asia who are food insecure. Pakistan is the second largest nation in South Asia and almost 77 million people are food insecure in the country. There are some critical issues which affect the food security situation. In this study, current situation of food security in Pakistan has been assessed and important policy issues at national and regional levels are discussed which directly or indirectly affect the situation. Pakistan has seven Administrative units including five provinces (Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan) and two federally administrative units (FATA and AJK). Food security situation of all seven units has been assessed to see the net food production in these units, food consumption, deficit/surplus, self-sufficiency and gap between actual food access and national food security line. This study also differentiates between actual and potential food access. In the end, based on Food availability, accessibility and overall food security all seven administrative units are ranked.

Author: Samra Fayyazuddin
Publisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788170249832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115

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