PRAIA ¨C The Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) has generously contributed US$ 1 million to provide daily nutritious meals to 90,000 school children in Cabo-Verde during the 2023-2024 school year. This contribution comes from ECOWAS¡¯ Regional Food Security Reserve built up in February 2013 to respond to food security crises across the region. It complements the efforts already made by ECOWAS and its partners, as well as those already undertaken by the Government of Cabo Verde.
PRAIA ¨C The Government of Japan has contributed US$ 760,000 to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to provide daily nutritious meals to 90,000 school children in Cabo Verde in 2023.
PRAIA ¨C A week after schools reopened in Cabo Verde, the Government¡¯s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and Regional Integration, and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ), today, signed an agreement to meet the food and nutrition needs of nearly 90,000 school children through the national school feeding programme.
NB: This is a re-issue of a 23 June 2022 joint FAO-Â鶹ÊÓƵ news release. This version corrects the number of people facing acute levels of food insecurity in Cabo Verde.
DAKAR ¨C The number of people affected by food insecurity in Cabo Verde is set to spike with more than 46,000 women, men and children ¨C almost 10 percent of the population - facing an acute deterioration in food security between June and August this year. This represents a threat to the country¡¯s hard-won gains in food security over recent years forcing the Government to declare a social and economic national emergency on 20 June. If not urgently addressed, this will severely disrupt food access and agricultural production, putting more lives at risk as the country depends largely on imports to meet its food needs.
