Acute food insecurity affects nearly 4.9 mln people in Mozambique during 2024/2025 lean season: report

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Acute food insecurity affects nearly 4.9 mln people in Mozambique during 2024/2025 lean season: report

10:18 CAT | 19 May 2025

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Nearly 4.9 million people in Mozambique faced high levels of acute food insecurity during the lean season from October 2024 to March 2025, according to the 2025 Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC).

The report, released on Friday by the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC), an international alliance comprising United Nations, governmental and non-governmental agencies, shows that 24 percent of the analysed population in 105 of Mozambique’s 156 districts during the lean season faced high levels of acute food insecurity, including 900,000 in emergency conditions.

The crisis was driven by El Nino-induced drought, which brought rainfall deficits and high temperatures during the 2023/2024 agricultural season. As a result, maize production fell by an estimated 720,000 tonnes, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Storms and cyclones worsened the situation. Tropical Storm Filipo in March 2024 and Cyclone Chido in December 2024 damaged a combined 58,000 hectares of cropland and affected key infrastructure.

Rising food prices added further pressure. In October 2024, maize prices were 33 percent above the five-year average in the south and 60 percent higher in the central regions.

A parallel nutrition crisis affected around 100,000 children under five and 20,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women. Poor diets, disease outbreaks, and damaged water and sanitation systems, especially in the north, worsened conditions.

Mozambique has appeared in all nine editions of the GNAFC report as a country facing major food crises. Since 2022, more than 3 million people have been affected annually.

𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗨𝗧 – The Global Report on Food Crises (2025)

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