Agrifood systems policy research: agricultural growth, hunger, and poverty. Historical evolution of agrifood systems in Pakistan
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International Water Management Institute
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This study probes assumptions which underpin current thinking about the transformation of Pakistan’s agrifood systems by identifying and examining key turning points from the 1840s onwards in sub-regions of the Indus irrigated plains. It highlights historical antecedents of contemporary agrifood systems including: the political-strategic goals of colonial reformers, origins of inter-regional disparities, the elevation and marginalisation of various social groups and agrarian classes, ambivalence towards markets and market-players, and the entrenched political economy of land and water resources.
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agrifood systems, policies, agricultural growth, hunger, poverty, land resources, water resources, food security, colonization, agrarian reform, green revolution, history, political aspects