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Rehabilitating Agriculture and Promoting Food Security After the 2010 Pakistan Floods: Insights from the South Asian Experience

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  • Paul Dorosh

    (Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC)

  • Sohail J. Malik

    (Innovative Development Strategies (Pvt.) Ltd. Islamabad)

  • Marika Krausova

    (Development Strategy and Governance Division, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC)

Abstract

The 2010 floods in Pakistan had a devastating effect on the Pakistani population. This paper summarises recovery experiences from previous natural disasters in South Asia, including the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and the 1998 flood in Bangladesh, and suggests several lessons relevant for recovery efforts following the 2010 Pakistan flood. First, market and trade policies should maintain adequate price incentives so that private trade and imports can contribute to post-disaster recovery. Second, a strong institutional framework is needed to coordinate the large-scale disaster response. Third, recovery efforts should also include support for livelihood security and restoration, ensuring inclusion of the stakeholders. Fourth, restoring and upgrading infrastructure facilities can lead to enhanced flood resistance as well as a reduction in future disaster loss. Two alternative institutions may be possible vehicles for poverty-alleviation—the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP). To address future disasters, however, it is important to establish and strengthen disaster response capability, including applying lessons learned from the relief and rehabilitation response to the 2010 floods.

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  • Paul Dorosh & Sohail J. Malik & Marika Krausova, 2010. "Rehabilitating Agriculture and Promoting Food Security After the 2010 Pakistan Floods: Insights from the South Asian Experience," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 49(3), pages 167-192.
    • Handle: RePEc:pid:journl:v:49:y:2010:i:3:p:167-192
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    Cited by:

    1. Ameer Hyder & Nasir Iqbal, 2016. "Socio-Economic Losses of Flood and Household’s Coping Strategies: Evidence from Flood Prone District of Pakistan," PIDE-Working Papers 2016:142, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
    2. Qasir Abbas & Jiqin Han & Adnan Adeel & Raza Ullah, 2019. "Dairy Production under Climatic Risks: Perception, Perceived Impacts and Adaptations in Punjab, Pakistan," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(20), pages 1-21, October.
    3. Abbas, Qasir & Han, Jiqin & Bakhsh, Khuda & Ullah, Raza & Kousar, Rakhshanda & Adeel, Adnan & Akhtar, Asma, 2022. "Adaptation to climate change risks among dairy farmers in Punjab, Pakistan," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    4. Florence Kondylis & Valerie Mueller, 2014. "Economic consequences of conflict and environmental displacement," Chapters, in: Robert E.B. Lucas (ed.), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, chapter 14, pages 388-424, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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    Keywords

    Pakistan; Floods; Post-disaster Recovery and Rehabilitation; Food Security;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy

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