“Tight food supply has eased” - FAO

The tight food supply situation in Rwanda, has reportedly eased with the new harvest, FAO said in its latest Africa report. It said the prices of maize, beans and Irish potatoes had decreased from their levels a year ago. “However, despite the overall improvement in the food situation, emergency food assistance is anticipated to be needed until the next harvest for people in the Bugesera region, particularly in Kanzenze and Gashora districts,” FAO said. WFP plans to distribute 13,000 tons of emergency food assistance for three months to 267,000 drought-affected people in southeast Rwanda. “While stringent controls have contained the outbreak of food-and-mouth disease in Umutara, marketing restrictions are causing economic difficulties for pastoralist households,” FAO added.