The World Bank has expressed its concern over the increasing food security in parts of the Pakistan.
In recent report, it pointed out that among 43 rural districts across Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and Balochistan, many of which were impacted by the 2022 floods, the prevalence of acute food insecurity was projected to increase from 29% to 32% in Q2–Q3 FY24.
The report added that food inflation remained high but steady over H1 FY24.
On an average, during H1 FY23, food inflation was 30.7% in urban areas and 33.5% in rural ones.
It rose to only 33.4% and 34.0% in urban and rural areas, respectively, in H1 FY24.
“The relatively smaller increase was partly due to a higher output of domestically produced food items combined with a decline in global food prices.”
