UN to help 7 lac hunger striking Zimbabwean
The United Nations world food program (WFP) plans to provide food to 700,000 people in Zimbabwe who have had an extremely tough time, especially this year. The country has been extremely affected by the war in Ukraine & the exceptionally poor harvest this year.
According to the reports, the Zimbabwe government is looking for agencies & organizations to find food for around 3.8 million people at the moment. Zimbabwe as a country has always struggled with food provision, especially since 2000 because of their former leader, Robert Mugabe, who resettled the landless black people after the iconic seizure from the white-owned farms.
The sitting government expects its staple maize harvest to fall by approximately half this year. It will hopefully be 1.56 tons. If we look at last year’s harvest, it was around 2.72 tons. The country at the moment is in need of around 2.2 tons of maize this year as it needs each year.
To feed the people of Zimbabwe in this hour of need, the United Nations world food program plans to go for $40m.
The program is expected to be started in October. It will rescue the people in this hour of extreme need & hopefully get them through this year.
The program will end around March when the harvest of the country starts & at the start of October it ends. The WFP program will be there until the harvesting season comes around.
UN to help 7 lac hunger striking Zimbabwean
“It is not correct to say that the country is going through extreme famine but it does not mean that it is good either. We are preparing for a response that will take off from October to March at the moment. The WFP is planning a joint relief program with the government of Zimbabwe to save 3.8 people from hunger”, added WFP representative, Francesca Edelmann.
She further emphasized that the figure for hunger-striving people has reached from 2.9 to 3.8.
This does translate to the constant fear of hunger increasing as time passes by. The country is seeing a huge price hike ever since the start of the year.
Zimbabwe’s Inflation rate at the start of January stood at 61 percent & now it has gone to 285% at the end of the year. The government, however, does not seem to be at the end of doing something productive in the dooming economic zone.
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