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This report measures the Market conditions using International prices, domestic prices and availability other market indicators.

• Several factors are maintaining pressure on food and non-food prices: depreciation of the Pakistani Rupee, deterioration of the trade balance and the widening fiscal deficit, long-lasting effects of floods, and localized droughts.
• Particularly food inflation is deteriorating households’ purchasing power and has contributed significantly to food insecurity over the last few years.

This report measures the Market conditions using International prices, domestic prices and availability other market indicators.

This report measures the Market conditions using International prices, domestic prices and availability other market indicators.

This paper reviews wheat market dynamics in the Central Asia region. As a region whose countries experience perennial food deficits, trade plays a central role in ensuring adequate food availability. The paper is the result of fieldwork undertaken in spring 2011 to establish a better understanding of the dynamics, structure, trends, and constraints confronting the wheat marketing sector in the region, and to better understand the role that wheat trade plays in ensuring food security for the region. For the purposes of this study, the Central Asia region includes Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The study is composed of two main parts: the vulnerability profile of the country and the shock simulation model. The first assesses the vulnerability context of Pakistan using baseline data (i.e. without shocks, identifies the areas and livelihood groups that are most vulnerable to potential shocks and describes the food security situation of households measured in terms of caloric intake. This vulnerability profile provides contextual information for the modeling by highlighting factors that make household sensible to market and climate shocks. Part two develops a framework for the Shock Impact Modeling System (SIMS) which estimates the impact of the recent market and climate shocks on household food consumption in Pakistan. The simulation results show which population groups are most affected by previous shocks and which ones are likely to be most affected by future shocks.

This report measures the Market conditions using International prices, domestic prices and availability other market indicators.

Religious extremism and militancy in Pakistan is concentrated in the country’s north?west; comprising the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and parts of the North?West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan.

These market price bulletins monitor the exports, purchasing power, international prices, wholesale prices, and retail prices.

These market price bulletins monitor the exports, purchasing power, international prices, wholesale prices, and retail prices.