Pakistan’s looming food crisis

Floods caused by record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in Pakistan’s northern mountain regions have left the country’s agriculture belt underwater and the nation facing food shortages


Islamabad
AFGHANISTAN 
PAKISTAN
IRAN
INDIA

Floodwater now covers 160,000 sq km

Area of detail


Crop areas
Flooded areas

Sindh province: Produces one third of country’s food. Main crops are rice and cotton – half of Pakistan’s cotton crop has been destroyed

8km 5 miles

BALOCHISTAN
ARABIAN SEA
Karachi
Jacobabad
Sukkur
Indus River
Dadu
Lake Manchar
SINDH
Hyderabad
Mirpur Khas
INDIA


Sources: Bloomberg, CNN, Relief Web, UNICEF
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