CPEC and Food Security: Empirical Evidence From Pakistan

• DOI: 10.5296/jpag.v9i1.14309
• Publication Date: 2019-03-12T05:17:14Z
• Authors: Nida Baig; Chen He; Shahbaz Khan; Salman Ali Shah
• Keywords: Geopolitics

Among the various major issues, food insecurity is one with which Pakistan has to encounter with. According a report by WFP (2017), about sixty percent of population in insecure, access limited or uneven, and malnutrition widespread. Having an emerging geopolitical prestige, it expected that through CPEC, can get better foundation infrastructural -and agricultural economic zones collaboration Chinese counterparts may further support perk up security. Accordingly, study tries examine impact CPEC initiatives on security Pakistan. The data randomly collected from stakeholders working government sector organizations results show would tend improve status research suggest developing countries like use corridors such as strategic tool situation.