Global Food Crisis
and Pakistan
Owais Uddin
Syed Mazhar Ali
Ali Bin Manzoor
Table of Contents
• Food Crisis and Phases
• General Overview
• Drivers of Food Crisis
• Food Crisis and Pakistan
• Causes of Food Crisis
• Impacts of Food Crisis
• How to Overcome Food Crisis?
• References
Phases
None/Minimal
Stressed
Crisis
Emergency
Catastrophe
Drivers of Food Crises
• Conflict/insecurity
• Weather extremes
• Economic shocks, including the effects of COVID-19
• Disease outbreaks
• Crop pests and animal diseases
War in Ukraine
• Global food supplies and prices
• Escalating energy and fertilizer prices
• Humanitarian operations
Challenges Faced by Forcibly Displaced People
• Most displaced farmers have lost their capacity to produce food
• Lack of access to basic services
• Restrictive policies and discrimination
Pakistan
Balochistan
2019
• 1.4 million people
• 50% of analyzed population
2021
• 1.1 million people
• 25% of analyzed population
Sindh
2019
• 3.1 million people
• 53% of analyzed population
2021
• 2.3 million people
• 23% of analyzed population
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2019
• 1.1 million people
2021
• 1.5 million people
Drivers of Food Crisis in Pakistan in 2021
High food and fuel
prices
Weather Extreme
Widespread loss of
income-generating
opportunities
Livestock Diseases
Key Drivers
Food security and
access to healthy
diets
Caring and
feeding practices
Health services
and household
environment
Causes of Food Crisis
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Unequal Distribution
Wastage
Capitalism
Poor Governance
Impacts of Food Crisis
• Gender Discrimination
• Child Labor
• Weak Physical and Mental Health
• Engagement in Immoral Activities
• Illiteracy and Unemployment
How to Overcome Food Crisis?
1
Support
Production
and Producers
2
Facilitate
Increased
Trade
3
4
5
Improve Trade
Policies
Improve
Existing
Infrastructural
Programs
Promote
Diversification
6
Work
Towards
Defeating
Climate
Change
References
• Global Report on Food Crisis 2022
• World Food Programme (WFP)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination (Pakistan)
• World Bank
• Bloomberg