Open AccessSocio-Economic Policy Imperatives for Sustainable Food System in Pakistan
Author(s) -
Touqeer Ahmad,
Abdul Saboor,
Irfan Ahmad Baig,
Aneela Afzal
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of south asian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2308-7846
pISSN - 2307-4000
DOI - 10.33687/jsas.009.02.3784
Subject(s) - food security , food systems , economics , natural resource economics , climate change , subsidy , sustainable agriculture , agricultural productivity , food policy , productivity , sustainable development , environmental economics , volatility (finance) , food processing , business , agriculture , agricultural economics , public economics , economic growth , ecology , political science , market economy , financial economics , law , biology
The deadly waves of COVID-19 have exposed especially the food and health systems around the world. The purpose of this research study is to analyze the linkages of socio-economic factors encroaching on sustainable food systems and ultimately food security. Moreover, the policy twist is required to contrive a holistic and integrated approach for the formulation and implementation of workable public policies to materialize the true dream of a sustainable food system. Multinomial Logistic Regression has been applied to estimate the results. The results reveal the story that the independent variables like subsidized fertilizer availability, seeds productivity performance, changing pattern of sowing, and adaptation to climate change have a high positive and statistically significant relation with crops productivity. Moreover, inputs price volatility and changing sowing patterns have a positive and statistically significant impact on adaptation to climate change. Climate change and the current application of research and development (R and D) showed a negative impact on production. These results bring forth two dimensional (Alpha and Beta) set of policies to rearrange formulation and implementation frameworks. The former emphasizes food baskets acquisition, investing a large amount in health and environment friendly activities. The latter focuses on risk-aversion based healthcare system, food price regulatory framework, and balancing the social-ecosystem.