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Faisal Mueen Qamer, Sravan Shrestha & Birendra Bajracharya
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Global food security is a complex issue and is expected to worsen due to population growth and other emerging issues such as climate change. South Asia, with its extremely limited arable land, faces the daunting challenge of feeding a growing population that is projected to increase by 19% (to 431 million people) by 2050. Although, the region has witnessed some progress in reducing the number of undernourished people, this is still not sufficient to achieve the zero-hunger target of Sustainable Development Goal 2 by 2030.
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