4,1m Zimbos food insecure: WFP

AT LEAST 4,1 million people are in urgent need of food aid as low production and a high cost of living take a heavy toll on Zimbabweans, a new food security report has revealed.

According to the World Food Programme (WFP)’s food security and markets monitoring report released recently, this is an increase from 3,6 million people estimated at the beginning of April to 4,1 million at the beginning of July.

“According to WFP’s HungerMap LIVE monitoring platform, which collects data from rural and urban households through mobile surveys on a number of indicators, including food consumption patterns and coping strategies — the number of people facing insufficient food had been steadily decreasing since peaking at 5,8 million people in November last year.

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