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Food Security---Sustainable Development Dr. Abid Qaiyum Suleri suleri@sdpi.org http://www.sdpi.org Slide 2 6F Challenges Facing Sustainable Development Fiscal, Fuel, Food, Functional Democracy, Frontier Slide 3 Sustainable Development Slide 4 Priority setting Individual Security? National Security? Regional Security? Global Security Their interconnectedness makes it difficult to address the security of state if security at one of the other levels has been compromised. Slide 5 Food security ranking in Pakistan indicates that compromised security at one level compromises security at each of the other levels. Slide 6 FOOD SECURITY AVAILABILITY ACCESS ABSORPTION Slide 7 Slide 8 Slide 9 Food Absorption Slide 10 Slide 11 Slide 12 Slide 13 Individual cases of relative hunger, when turn into collective deprivation and gets an identity, whether creed, gender, class, or nationality always lead to class conflict and ultimately to violence. Slide 14 Slide 15 Slide 16 Source SDPI-WFP 2003; 2009 Linkages between food insecurity and violence Extremely Food insecure areas of Pakistan Slide 17 Slide 18 Updated as of 1600 WEDNESDAY 14 H April 2010 District Accessibility Map Slide 19 Slide 20 Upper Dir N. Waziristan S. Waziristan Kohistan Rajin Pur Muzaffar Garrh D.G Khan Kashmore Kandhkot Shikarpur Dadu Nasir Abad Jaffarabad Slide 21 Security: National Vs Individual Reduction in SDPD allocations, HEC funds increase in defense budget Or National and Individual Security Slide 22 Priorities in public spending Total Revenue: 1450 billion RS Debt Servicing: 800 billion Defense Expenditures: 520billion Day to Day Administration: 250 billion Development Expenditures: Reduction in PSDP Expenditures on Watan Card, flood reconstruction: Fiscal Deficit: 8.5% of GDP Slide 23 Slide 24 It would not only improve state but regional security too. Change in paradigm Food Insecurity issues are a security threat rather than merely humanitarian concern Slide 25 How UAF Can Contribute Towards Attaining FS and SD Academia ----------Policy Think Tanks, National Food Security Strategy Centre for SD Studies Partnership of Research in SD-------Trans- disciplinary Studies Slide 26