The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have cried out for lack of $169m funding for the ‘seed protection’ programme going-on in the Central African Republic (CAR) to be successful, reports NaijaAgroNet.
In a joint press
statement made available to NaijaAgroNet, WFP noted it requires US$83 million
to respond to the urgent needs of 1.4 million people in CAR and in neighbouring
countries hosting Central African Republic refugees, while the FAO is appealing
for US$86 million to support 1.55 million people with inputs to produce crops
and keep their livestock healthy, in order to boost food security.
The programme,NaijaAgroNet gathered, is currently being funded by governments of Belgium,
Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and United States, as well as
the African Development Bank, the European Union and ECHO, the FondsBêkou, the
United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund, the Common Humanitarian Fund
for the Central African Republic, UN Women, and World Bank, yet only half
of the estimated number of beneficiaries could receive support based on
available fund.
NaijaAgroNet
also reports that with 75 percent of the population depending on
agriculture, FAO, WFP and their partners have been working together since
the beginning of the unrest to mitigate negative impacts on agricultural
production and food security.
The
programme which involves provision of seeds, hand tools and food to nearly
50,000 hungry farming families in the most food-insecure areas of the Central
African Republic (CAR) in a bid to make sure families do not survive with the current
scarcity by eating the seeds meant for planting.
Okoli
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