Inseguranca alimentar
Maputo, 21 Aug (AIM) – Around 3.15 million people, corresponding to 10 percent of the Mozambican population, are in a situation of acute food insecurity.
According to the executive secretary of the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN), Leonor Mondlane, the situation is most worrying in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, where around 25 percent of the population could be affected.
“Of this group of 3.15 million, we have around 400,000 people who need humanitarian assistance and the rest need development assistance so that they can recover their productive capacity. That’s why kits of inputs have been distributed so that families can recover their productive capacity”, Mondlane told the press on the sidelines of a meeting of the National Council for Food and Nutrition Security, which was chaired by the Prime Minister, Adriano Maleiane.
According to Mondlane, the government has the support of the National Disaster Management Institute (INGD) and other partners, including the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).
Most of the country’s food insecure citizens are concentrated in Cabo Delgado, as the other provinces are in a “more or less balanced” situation.
“The data we still use is from the post-harvest food security assessment. This year will see the launch of the Post-Shock Report, which is currently in the development phase”, she explained.
This document will present the main shocks that have occurred in the country, particularly floods and cyclones.
(AIM)
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