Pakistan is finally joining Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Nigeria as a wheat importer. The basis has long existed but has taken time to fully develop. Like the other nations in this cohort, there is a large, growing, and youthful population running headlong into a limited agricultural base. Consumption finally outpaced domestic supply in 2018/19. Pakistan is mostly a desert country with its agriculture and people concentrated in the Indus River plain. It has nearly eight times the irrigated land as neighboring Afghanistan, but it is environmentally fragile. There are floods and earthquakes, plus political and geopolitical instability. Most importantly, there is food insecurity. The government is trying to improve domestic production with bord...

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