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Initiative On Soaring Food Prices
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Access
to nutritious food throughout the year remained a major crisis
notwithstanding the steady economic growth over the past 10
years. The recent surge in food prices has further aggravated
the problem with nearly 80 million Pakistanis currently facing
food insecurity and one-third living on less than USD 2/ day.
In the framework of the Initiative on Soaring Food Prices
(ISFP), the UN system in Pakistan undertook a common Assessment
of the Impact of Food Crisis in Pakistan and Recommendations
for Short, Medium and Long Term Response in June this year.
The assessment profiled food insecure households and specifically
identified needs for assistance in the short term (for the
first year) and suggested response options such as food aid
needs, safety-nets interventions for small farmers, and nutrition
programmes for the most vulnerable. In parallel a Medium to
Long Term Investment Programme follow-up study, identifying
ways to increase production and incomes of poor rural producer,
is expected to be completed by November 2008.
The Ministry for Food, Agriculture
and Livestock (MINFAL) has expressed its appreciation of the
FAO’s timely ISFP in Pakistan comprising of a Technical
Cooperation Programme (TCP) project worth US$ 500 000. FAO
focuses on winter (Rabi) planting activities from October
2008 until December 2009 to bolster wheat production benefitting
60 000 people in the remote and food in-secure districts of
North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
With an additional allocation
of USD 1.2 million from the UN Central Emergency Response
Fund (CERF), FAO aims to increase crop production by assisting
8 000 most vulnerable households in NWFP
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