HARARE The Famine Early Warning System and Network (FEWSNET) has downgraded Zimbabwes food security forecast amid revelations that 400 000 more people are in danger of starvation between now and the harvest in March. (Pictured: Green mealies More hunger seen between n
The US-funded early warning system said 1.7 million Zimbabweans about a quarter of who are in towns and cities are in need of food aid during the next two months. Both FEWSNET and the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee
(ZimVAC) had last year estimated that about 1.3 million rural households will be food insecure between January and March.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)/World Food Programme (WFP) Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission estimated that an additional 400 000 people in the urban areas will not be able to meet their food needs in the 2010/11 consumption year, it said. This brings the estimate of food insecure people in Zimbabwe to about 1.7 million. The urban food insecure households are mostly concentrated in peri-urban areas and high-density suburbs.
Outside of the urban areas, the food security areas of concern through the end of the lean season include Beitbridge, Gwanda, Matobo, Mangwe, Bulilima, Hwange, Kariba, Binga, Chiredzi, Chivi, Zaka, Gutu, Bikita, Buhera, Chimanimani, Nyanga, Rushinga, Mudzi, and Mberengwa. These areas also have projected low acute malnutrition levels over the outlook period, warned FEWSNET.
It is estimated that these districts are likely to experience a relatively high prevalence of food insecure people between January and March due to low household level purchasing power. The organisation however said food assistance programme plans for the January-March period would be sufficient to cover the assessed needs.
Assistance programmes ranging from general vulnerable group feeding to special targeted feeding by the government and the humanitarian community have plans to cover about 1.6 million people between January and March.
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