Determinants of Food Security in Rural Areas of Pakistan

Rana Ejaz Ali Khan and Abid Rashid Gill

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Abstract: Abstract: Out of 120 districts of Pakistan (for rural areas) only 40 are food secure while 80 (67 percent) are food insecure. Within these food insecure districts, 38 (46 percent) are extremely food insecure. The matter of food security in rural areas is of immense nature and needs to be probed. A number of factors are responsible for the situation. The current paper examines the determinants of three aspects of food security in rural areas of Pakistan, i.e. food availability, accessibility and absorption. For the purpose a series of models is applied on district level data of rural areas of Pakistan. The production of wheat, rice, maize, pulses, oilseeds, poultry meat and fish at the district level is found to affect food availability positively. All the district except of Sindh are more probable to be food insecure in availability. In the food accessibility electrification and adult literacy emerged as the factors having negative effect. Child immunization, safe drinking water and number of hospitals have shown positive effect on food absorption.

Keywords: Food production; Rural areas; Pakistan; Food security; Devolution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-02-16
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