The 2020 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) has shown that a total of 12% of Ghana’s population are food insecure.
The percentage means that, a total of 3.6 million people are either severely or moderately food insecure, hence does not consume food with the right nutritional values to improve their wellbeing.
Out of the 3.6 million implied food insecure people in the country, 78 percent are located in rural areas whiles the remaining 22 percent are in urban areas.
This was made known during a zonal dissemination of the 2020 Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA)in Tamale.
The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA), with technical and financial support from the World Food Programmes (WFP) undertook a comprehensive food security Assessment which interviewed 67,140 household heads from across 4,476 enumeration areas from the 260 districts in Ghana.
In an interview with the Government statistician, Prof Samuel Anim noted that these figures calls for a careful think-through on the production and consumption of our food products.
He called for a careful attention on the transportation, storage and its adverse effect on the pricing of these food products to be relooked at.
Prof Anim believes that as food inflation contributes about 50% of Ghana’s overall inflation, there is the need to see how consumption can be equated to production.
He as well called for the need for taste and preferences of consumers to align with the commodities produced on the domestic market .
On her part the country director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ms Barbara Clemens noted that quality of food products must be of paramount importance as against quantity.
She emphasized that people who are food and nutrition secure, contributes greatly to the county’s returns as against those who are insecure.
Ms. Clemens is meanwhile calling for some sensitization programs to educate the public about issues of food insecurity and it’s accompanying consequences.
Source:Fiilafmonline/ShawanaYussif
