Food shortages hit cereal producing regions

APPROXIMATELY 5,5 million Zimbabweans are food insecure as food reserves dwindle in homes, World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

In its Food Security and Markets Monitoring Report for March this year, WFP has estimated that the number of people facing insufficient food was 5,5 million during the first week of April.

WFP said the prevalence of insufficient food increased the most in Harare from 16% to 24%, Mashonaland West (27% to 41%) and Mashonaland Central (27% to 41%), some of the country’s biggest grain producing regions.

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