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This volume foregrounds the importance of regional cooperation in the context of food security challenges in South Asia. South Asia holds the key to global achievement of SDG targets of ending hunger and malnutrition - it accounts for nearly one-third of food-insecure people on the planet, with every third child suffering from stunting due to malnutrition. Similar food preferences, production systems, and the transboundary nature of agrarian ecosystems call for coordinated action by South Asian countries, complementing national actions dealing with food security challenges.
In this volume, leading experts discuss the perspectives of key South Asian countries in leveraging regional cooperation for addressing food security challenges and reflect on the potential of cooperative actions in different areas. The book proposes a ten-point regional policy agenda covering cooperation for combatting climate change, regional trade liberalization, operationalization of regional food reserves, leveraging technology, sharing of good practices, regional institution building, coordinated positions in multilateral trade negotiations, addressing trans-boundary outbreak of livestock diseases, strengthening food safety standards, and the management of shared natural resources.
A key volume on accomplishing SDGs in the South Asian context, this book will be of immense interest to policy makers, researchers, and development practitioners. It is also essential reading for scholars and researchers in the areas of development studies, South Asia studies, food security, environment and sustainability.
Contents
1. Regional cooperation for sustainable food security in South Asia: an overview and policy lessons PART I Regional perspectives on food security 2. Realizing sustainable food security in South Asia: progress, challenges and opportunities 3. Potential for intraregional trade in food products in South Asia 4. Agricultural trade in South Asia: issues, challenges and the way forward 5. SAARC Food Bank: raising operational efficacy PART II National food security strategies: leveraging regional cooperation 6. Ensuring food security in Bangladesh: issues beyond production and challenges ahead 7. India's national food security strategies and potential for regional cooperation 8. State of food security in Nepal: addressing concerns of productivity and climate change 9. National food security challenges and strategies in Pakistan: cooperation for technology and trade 10. Food security policy framework in Sri Lanka: market reforms, diversifi cation and safety nets
