Sustainable Development Goals: End poverty, Food Security and Healthy Lives through Human Resources and Managing Agriculture Productivity (A case of Pakistan)

Abstract

The year 2015, is a year in which countries will shape a new development agenda in United Nations Conference to be held at its headquarter in the next month September 2015, and nations will reach a global agreement of 17 points for the welfare of human beings. The first component of agenda of new post 2015 is to decrease poverty in its all forms everywhere; secondly to end hunger by achieving food security and improved nutrition and thirdly to ensure healthy lives and promote well being for all at all ages. As a strategy to overcome two problems poverty and food security the increase in agricultural production is the right answer and healthy life of the people is also indirectly associated with pure, cheep and timely food supply in market.

Pakistan at present is faced with a serious food crisis due to population explosion and under-developed state of agriculture like others developing economies. The overall population growth is more than two percent in urban and two to three percent in rural. The estimated population of Pakistan is 200 million and it will be doubled in 2050. The rapid increase in population needs increase in food supply which is only possible through increase in agricultural productivity at large. The study contributes significantly in the existing body of knowledge on this subject. The major issues have been summed up by examining it through in-depth analysis using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study concludes that supply of important inputs seed, fertilizer and pesticides is inadequate in bowing seasons, which harms per acre yield and needs dire attention of policy makers for the welfares of the growers to increase their income and to reduce the rate of ultra poverty and also for the food security of the rapid increasing population and spreading malnutrition related dieses in urban centers of the country.