Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ministry of National Food Security & Research or Ministry of Agricultulre (Urdu: وزارتِ برائے قومی تحقیق و حفظانِ تغذیہ ، پاکستان, wazarat-e- baraye qaumi tehqeeq o hfzanِ taghzia, Pakistan (abbreviated as MoA) is a Cabinet-level ministerial department of Government of Pakistan.
The Global Food Security Index consists of a set of indices from 113 countries. It measures food security across most of the countries of the world. [ 1 ] It was first published in 2012, and is managed and updated annually by The Economist 's intelligence unit.
In the current year, consumer prices for food are forecast to increase by 4.5 per cent on average. [11] Most shopping centers have expensive underground car parking places that are often in practice free of charge. The high construction prices are included in the price of food and goods.
2022 Pakistan floods in summer cause over $30 billion dollars in economic losses in Pakistan. [43] At the end of March 2022, the State Bank of Pakistan's reserves stood at $11.425bn, but they gradually tanked to an almost four-year low of $6.715bn on 2 December. Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves equal to just five weeks of merchandise ...
The Department of Plant Protection (DPP) (Urdu: سررشتہ تحفظِ نباتات ، پاکستان is a department of the Ministry of National Food Security and Research of the Government of Pakistan [1] [2] and a Federal Minister is the head of the ministry. Syed Fakhar Imam is the head of ministry since 6 April 2020. It works under the ...
In October 2019, World Food Day was observed at an event at the National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) in Islamabad. This event was organized by the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization, Pakistan's Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC) and the World Food Programme (WFP).
The implementation of the right to food standards at national level has consequences for national constitutions, laws, courts, institutions, policies and programmes, and for various food security topics, such as fishing, land, focus on vulnerable groups, and access to resources. [5]
On 14 October 2022, the WFP reported that a record 4.7 million people (almost half of the country's population) are currently facing acute hunger in Haiti; [101] [102] using the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) scale, the WFP classified 19,000 of those people as belonging to the fifth and highest level on the scale, the ...