Wheat and woes: Pakistan’s food security crisis is brewing

the wheat fields of Punjab and the bazaars of Karachi, a crisis is unfolding, one that threatens not only the food on the nation’s tables, but the very economic and political stability of Pakistan. Once a country of relative wheat self-sufficiency, Pakistan now is on the edge of a food security disaster as a convergence of climate shocks, policy missteps, economic constraints, and global volatility push its wheat sector into unprecedented turmoil.