An estimated 50.6 million people in Eastern Africa are at risk of being food insecure and may require food assistance by the end of 2020 if urgent action is not taken.
According to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the compounding impacts of COVID-19 global pandemic, desert locust invasion, ongoing climatic shocks (including floods), could lead to a food security crisis in the IGAD region.
The IGAD Food Security and Nutrition Response Strategy which was launched today now calls upon Member States and Partners to provide technical and financial support to IGAD to implement a series of short-term interventions to deal with the unfolding crisis
Some of the interventions IGAD executive secretary Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu proposes to include improving and sustaining nutrition security among all vulnerable groups of people during food crises and Promoting and facilitating regional trade and cross-border access to markets.
