Congo-Kinshasa: A quarter of the population in the grip of acute food insecurity (All Africa)

All Africa published an article stating that 27 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), or about a quarter of the country’s population, face acute food insecurity since September 2021. This is what a study published this November by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) reveals. Co-author of a study published in 2020 on Spatial typologies of food and nutritional security applied to agriculture and food value chains in Eastern DRC. John Ulimwengu said, “the challenge really is how to ensure that the evidence generated in the report is used to design appropriate strategies to address food and nutrition insecurity at national and subnational levels.”