Pakistan Vision 2025

The Pakistan Vision 2025 is a national multi-sectoral strategic document of Pakistan for the period 2014-2025. In the area of food, it seeks a Pakistan where all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life.
The document envisages food security in the context of the entire supply-chain- from production, processing, storage and distribution to consumption. Keeping the above in mind, its top five objectives for achieving food security are to: protect the most food-insecure segments of the population through effective relief measures, including long-term arrangements and adaptation mechanisms; create a modern, efficient and diversified agricultural sector – aligned with associated water and energy infrastructure – that can ensure a stable and adequate provision of basic food supplies for the country’s population, and provide high quality products to its industries and for export; optimize production and supply mix in line with current and projected needs by leveraging the country’s unique strengths; ensure that the entire supply-chain related to food security is geared towards provision of stable and affordable access to adequate, nutritious and safe food for a healthy life; and use the resource base in an efficient and sustainable manner – with outcome-based benchmarks agreed in line with regional and global standards. Other measures to ensure food security include improving access to food by the poor households; targeted productivity enhancement programs will be introduced for farmers livestock owners below subsistence level; increasing production of critical food items mainly in the remote areas of Pakistan; strengthening nutritional education for high risk groups such as pregnant and lactating women, young children, the elderly and disabled.
In the area of climate change, the document’s goals include designing water, food and energy security policies and plans of the country with specific reference to the profound challenges posed by climate change; explicit recognition of the relevant risks and associated economic and social costs and implementation of well-defined mitigation and adaptation strategies / measures; as well as promoting long term sustainability, conservation and protection of natural resources.
The document’s implementation will be the responsibility of Vision 2025 Board and Steering Committee. Performance Monitoring and Delivery Unit will monitor the implementation by managing targets, preparing reports and liaising with ministries.