Around 20,000 people in the Chibuto district of Gaza province in southern Mozambique are facing food insecurity due to the impacts of the El Niño weather phenomenon, the local administrator said today.
"At the moment there are some communities where there are already pockets of hunger because of the lack of rain we had in the last agricultural campaign and also in the second season we didn't have good rainfall. So this has conditioned us to start registering some pockets of hunger in the communities,’ said Sérgio Moiane.
The administrator indicated that the situation mainly affects the northern part of the district, in the villages of Godide, Alto Changane and Changanine, covering more than 20,000 people.
‘The alternative is for people to start using the livestock they have, to start using small animals to be able to sell and they are [selling],’ explained Sérgio Moiane, who also called for drought-tolerant crops to be planted as a way of minimizing the lack of rainfall caused by the effects of the El Niño phenomenon.
Mozambique is considered one of the countries most severely affected by global climate change, facing cyclical floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which runs from October to April.
El Niño is a change in atmospheric dynamics caused by an increase in ocean temperature. This meteorological phenomenon is also causing torrential rains in East Africa, which have already caused hundreds of deaths in several countries, such as Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, Somalia and Ethiopia.
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