5,4m Zimbos battling hunger

ABOUT 5,4 million Zimbabweans are battling hunger this month amid the free-falling local currency and the El Niño-induced drought, World Food Programme (WFP) data has revealed.

 In its February Food Security and Markets Monitoring Report, WFP also revealed that over 7,4 million Zimbabweans are resorting to “crisis and above” food-based coping strategies.

“[According to] WFP’s HungerMap LIVE monitoring platform, which collects data from rural and urban households through mobile phone surveys on several indicators including food consumption patterns and coping strategies — the number of people facing insufficient food consumption was estimated at 5,4 million during the first week of March up from 4,4 million during the first week of February and 4,9 million reported during the first week of December 2023,” the report read.

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