The present paper examined the influence of water shortage, uptake of technologies and economic shocks on rural household food security in Punjab, Pakistan. Despite Punjab being the agricultural backbone of the nation, farmers has severe challenges such as threats of shrinking water supplies, inaccessibility to technologies and recurrent economic instability. Data on demographic information, water access, technology use, economic shock exposure, and food security indicators, Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) and Food Consumption Score (FCS) were collected by means of a quantitative cross-sectional survey of 400 households. The findings reveal that water scarcity and economic shock have an enormous impact in increasing the vulnerability to food insecurity, While technological use, income, and education levels have a mitigatory effect. Rigorous checks on these results were performed through FCS-based robustness tests. The paper established that the most severe economic shocks to the rural food access and stability are income changes, market price instability and the rising input prices. Overall, the results demonstrate the significance of integrative policies that would be directed at sustainable water management, advancement of technologies and incomes stabilization to provide food security and resiliency of rural households in Punjab.

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KeyWords: Food Security; Water Scarcity; Technological Adoption; Economic Shocks; Rural Households; Agricultural Productivity; Sustainable Livelihoods

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*Corresponding author: bilal.aslam@siss.uol.edu.pk

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