Pakistan: Inflation hits food security

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Despite efforts by the Pakistani government and international organizations, inflation, declining income, natural disasters and stagnating domestic productivity are hampering attempts to achieve food security for the country?s 180 million citizens. (..) ?Over the last couple of years, Pakistan has officially been a food surplus country in terms of cereal production,? says Krishna Pahari, head of WFP?s Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping unit in Islamabad. ?But many households here don?t have access to that food. Many are marginal, deficit, subsistence farmers whose own production is not enough to meet their needs.?