West Africa and the Sahel are facing growing food insecurity.
Rainfall deficits, insecurity, soaring food prices and slow economic recovery are putting the food security of millions of people at risk.
According to forecasts, for the 2022 lean season*, between June and August, 38 million people will be food insecure. This is 22% more than last year.
Insecurity and terrorist violence prevent farmers located in important agrarian areas of the Sahelian countries from cultivating their fields. Large agricultural areas are abandoned or currently inaccessible. This adds an additional brake to the harvest of food in this region hit hard by climate change and increasingly long periods of drought.
The limited or even non-existent availability of local foodstuffs and the increase in transport costs mean that in Burkina Faso, for example, the price of maize has soared by 50%, becoming inaccessible for a large part of the poor.
Morija fights every day to improve the daily lives of the poor by helping them in several sectors, including nutrition and agriculture, so that they can demonstrate resilience during the successive crises they experience.
*Welding period:
It is the period during which a population has finished consuming the foodstuffs harvested the previous year and has not yet harvested the next harvest. This period exposes populations to risks for their food security, which is why it must be as short as possible.
