Pakistan is among the 21 nations, facing food deficiencies due to high prices while around 36 percent of the country’s population is undernourished, showed a new interactive map published by Oxfam on Wednesday.
The map revealed that poor communities across the world were being hurt by high and volatile food prices. Most nations facing economic crisis were from Africa. Pakistan is suffering more than countries like Tanzania, Nigeria and Yemen, according to the map. “High and volatile food prices are the two big issues of 2011. The pressure points map can be embedded directly into any website to give audiences an easy way to raise their voice and take action on the food price crisis. The tool is part of Oxfam’s global GROW campaign to fix the broken food system,” Oxfam said.
“High food prices have crunched incomes of poor and have helped spark instability and violence around the world,” said Jeremy Hobbs, Executive Director of Oxfam.
“From Yemen to Bolivia, pressures of food price volatility on poor communities are staring us straight in the face, yet world leaders have not done enough to help,” he added.
After decades of steady progress in the fight against hunger, the number of people without enough to eat is again rising in Pakistan and could soon hit dangerous levels. In Pakistan, it was noted that nearly two-thirds of the population spends between 50 and 70 percent of their income on food, making them vulnerable to rising prices. Leaders from G-20 nations have delivered little more than band-aid solutions, giving little hope to struggling communities, Oxfam said in a press release.
