The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), is working to address urgent food security challenges in Pakistan, following the recent flood disaster which destroyed food stocks and approximately 10 percent of the country’s standing crops, leaving an estimated 10 million people vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition.
FAO is currently reaching 1.6 million people in these areas with distributions of wheat seed, fertilizer and vegetable seed kits, as well as as animal feed and veterinary supplies for livestock.
The risks of hunger and malnutrition are particularly acute among those who spend more than 60 percent of their income on food, such as poor urban people, displaced populations, rural landless people, pastoralists and the majority of smallholder farmers.
