Rana Tanveer Hussain, Federal Minister for National Food Security & Research

Rana Tanveer Hussain leads the ministry that sits at the collision point of two of Pakistan’s most pressing crises: a food system under strain and a climate that is making farming harder every season. As Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research, he has overseen a government that is both trying to modernise agriculture through better seeds, technology, and private sector investment, and scrambling to defend it against erratic monsoons, heatwaves that now arrive before spring is done, and floods that erase in days what farmers spent months building. He has said plainly that climate change has emerged as a major challenge for Pakistan’s agricultural sector, driving declining yields in key crops including rice and wheat. He has taken that message to the FAO conference in Rome, to the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, and into high-level meetings with international partners, consistently pushing for the kind of investment in climate-resilient varieties and adaptive farming that Pakistan’s rural communities will actually need to survive the decades ahead.