Some 20,000 people in the Chibuto district of Gaza province in southern Mozambique face food insecurity due to the impacts of the El Niño climate phenomenon, the local administrator said Wednesday.
“Right now There are some communities where there are already pockets of hunger due to the lack of rain we had in the last agricultural campaign. and also in the second season we did not have good rainfall. So that meant that at that time we began to register some pockets of hunger in the communities,” said Sérgio Moiane.
The administrator indicated that the situation mainly affects the northern area of the district, in the villages of Godide, Alto Changane and Changanine, covering more than 20 thousand people.
“The alternative is that the populations begin to use the livestock they have, begin to use small animals to be able to sell and [a vender]”explained Sérgio Moiane, also calling for the planting of drought-tolerant crops as a way to minimize the lack of rain caused by the effects of the El Niño phenomenon.
mozambique is considered one of the countries most affected by global climate changecyclically facing floods and tropical cyclones during the rainy season, which extends between October and April.
HE 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.
Source: Observadora
