 Widespread food insecurity and malnutrition are largely the main impairing factors for human capital development in Pakistan. Rates of chronic malnutrition are very high, and acute malnutrition is critical: 44 of children under five are stunted and nationwide global acute malnutrition GAM rates amongst children under five exceed the WHO critical threshold of 15. Nutritional status trends also show a deteriorating situation since 1994, when stunting rates were at 36. 