4 September 2013, Rome - About 11 million people in the Sahel are still severely food insecure, FAO warned today. Poor families have used up their food stocks and are facing high food prices awaiting the next harvest.
FAO is appealing to the international community to increase funding for aid to the most vulnerable farmers and herders in the region south of the Sahara.
Despite an FAO appeal for a total of $113.1 million this year to support almost 6 million vulnerable people in the Sahel, only $19.4 million has been received, about 17 percent of the total.
With the contributions received so far, FAO has been supporting 1.6 million farmers, agropastoralists and pastoralists.
"The recurrent food and nutrition crises in the Sahel in 2005, 2008 and 2012 have eroded the capacity of the poor to maintain or restore their livelihoods," said Lamourdia Thiombiano, interim head of the FAO Regional Office for Africa and the Subregional Office for West Africa. "Instead of working their own fields, many poor farmers are forced to sell their labour and were unable to benefit from the good weather of 2012."
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