ORANGI PILOT PROJECT

FOOD SECURITY-
ISSUES CONCERNS
AND STRATEGIES

Sr. Rev Date Prep By Rev By Submitted to

No
1 A 8-9-2017 Aisha Aqila Ismail
Parveen
Contents
1. Introduction to food security.
2. Availability, access, affordability and nutrition.
3. Agriculture for Equitable growth.

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 1. Introduction to Food security
The purpose of this program was to provide a plan which ensures the following factors:
Availability of food should be a necessity.
The food should be safe (free of germs etc.)
Sufficient and nutritious.
Economical.
Food Insecurities:
This aspect covers the main reasons due to which there is inadequate supply of food in a
particular region and those reasons are:
Due to natural disasters.
A conflict.
Illness of household members.
Example: According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) 9.4 million people are in
need of food assistance in Syria since the war has begun there.
In Pakistan flood of 2010 and 2011 were responsible for food insecurity and was a set back to
the companys economy.

Why food security?

Food security issues across Pakistan and around the world is because of the following
reasons:
Annually 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year
1 in every 7 people go to bed hungry
20,000 Children under the age of 5 are directly affected daily from lack of proper food
resulting in sickness issues.

2. Availability, access, affordable and nutrition

Purpose:
Eliminate hunger, malnutrition and unsuitable food system.

Goal:
To achieve the above purpose by 2030.

How?
Bring end to rural poverty by increasing small scale producer income and
productivity.
Eliminate food loss.

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 Increase the concept of healthy diet.

Nutrition:
The younger children aged below 5 and women lack proper nutritional food, in order to
overcome this awareness programs regarding nutrition of mother and her children should be
established.

3. Agriculture for Equitable Growth

A known fact is that the money earned from agriculture has the capability to reduce poverty
more quickly than money earned from any other means the reason for this is that the people
involved in farming specially the farmers are poor therefore the Government of Pakistan
should bring more agricultural reforms and allow educated people to enter in the field of
agriculture with all their possible research and analysis.

Conclusively:
The increasing rate of population growth in Pakistan has brought many problems related to
agriculture but lack of leadership to address these issues have been a common problem over
the past decades more over policies have been developed but there is no implementation plan.

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