Leasing out land and food security
One of the conspiracies brewing on the internet is turning out to be frighteningly real. It has been reported that the Government of Pakistan is in negotiation with the Saudi…
National food security
Food price escalation in South Asia is a matter of grave concern. Measured against the yardstick of $1.25-a-day, the increase in food prices can push millions of people below the…
Reneging on food security
India has just missed an historic opportunity to abolish hunger through a universal public distribution system (PDS), which creates legal entitlements for all citizens to adequate and affordable quantities of…
Food insecurity in Pakistan
The World Food Programme (WFP), run under the auspices of the United Nations, has recently designated hunger as the new normal. Its recently published Global Operational Response Plan 2022 warns…
Food insecurity
Pakistan has yet again fallen prey to climate-induced calamities. This time the scale of the disaster is much worse as all four provinces are experiencing the worst kind of floods,…
Food insecurity and war
THE cost of war is visible not only in gun smoke, bloodshed and tears; it is also evident in the sweeping away of the living rights of people affected by…
Pandemic-induced food insecurity: policy response
The general linchpin of the food security wheel intends to serve the locality by providing access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food in order to meet the calories intake. Here…
Food insecurity
I was shocked to read the ‘International Food Security Assessment 2021-31’ by the United States Department of Agriculture. I was shocked to find out that 38 percent of Pakistan’s population…
Food: security and safety
The only explanation that one can come up with for 2.5 million – and counting – cases of Cocid-19 worldwide, and for the loss of more than 170,000 (plus) precious…
India courts food insecurity
The Indian government last week tabled the National Food Security Bill amidst clamour from the corporate media about the “unaffordable” costs of providing food to the millions who need it.…
