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Agrifood systems policy research: agricultural growth, hunger, and poverty. Historical evolution of agrifood systems in Pakistan

This study probes assumptions which underpin current thinking about the transformation of Pakistan’s agrifood systems by identifying and examining key turning points from the 1840s onwards in sub-regions of the Indus irrigated plains. It highlights historical antecedents of contemporary agrifood sys...

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Main Author: Gazdar, H.
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). CGIAR Initiative on Transforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia 2023
Subjects:
agrifood systems
policies
agricultural growth
hunger
poverty
land resources
water resources
food security
colonization
agrarian reform
green revolution
history
political aspects
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/138441
Summary:This study probes assumptions which underpin current thinking about the transformation of Pakistan’s agrifood systems by identifying and examining key turning points from the 1840s onwards in sub-regions of the Indus irrigated plains. It highlights historical antecedents of contemporary agrifood systems including: the political-strategic goals of colonial reformers, origins of inter-regional disparities, the elevation and marginalisation of various social groups and agrarian classes, ambivalence towards markets and market-players, and the entrenched political economy of land and water resources.

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