Food Security in South Asia:Implications for Public Policy

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the successors of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have ensured a renewed commitment to end hunger and global poverty by 2030. Specifically, the second SDG, calls for measures “To end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture”. Food security as a concept is complex and has evolved overtime moving away from a strong focus on food availability to a multifaceted approach that also takes into account food accessibility, food utilisation and food stability. The complexities of achieving food security have increased due to the convoluted interplay of changing demographics and consumption patterns, climate change, impact of economic growth and trade at the national and international level.