Chad Is One of the World’S Most Vulnerable Countries

Particularly exposed to climate-related risks, Chad is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries. Structural development challenges, weak local capacities, high poverty rates and successive shocks exacerbate the population’s vulnerabilities. In addition, the conflict in the Lake Chad Basin and in neighbouring countries, together with the economic difficulties linked to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are increasing humanitarian needs in the country. © FAO

Objectives

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is Chad working with partners in the Food Security Cluster to: • Improve the food security and strengthen the resilience of vulnerable Humanitarian populations. Response Plan • Strengthen the capacities of national actors to prepare for and respond to climate-related shocks. 2021

Activities

period January–December 2021

With an already fragile context exacerbated by the effects of the pandemic, providing emergency agricultural and pastoral support remains essential to strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable populations.

Cadre Harmonisé phase classification 1.15 million people projected Tibesti LIBYA 1 – Minimal to be in high acute food insecurity 2 – Stressed NIGER 3 – Crisis 388 000 people affected by Borkou Ennedi 4 – Emergency heavy floods in 2020 5 – Famine Inadequate evidence +336 000 people displaced due Kanem Barh Wadi Fira to insecurity in the Lake Chad region El Gazel Not included Batha Lac and nearly 484 000 refugees from Lake Chad Ouaddaï SUDAN Hadjer-Lamis the Central African Republic, Nigeria Dar Sila NIGERIA Chari- and the Sudan Baguirmi Guéra Salamat Mayo-Kébbi Est

Mayo-Kébbi Ouest Tandjilé Moyen-Chari 3 508 confirmed COVID-19 cases Mandoul CENTRAL AFRICAN Logone REPUBLIC and 125 deaths (7 February 2021) CAMEROON Oriental

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Source: The Food Crisis Prevention Network. 2020. Chad: Projected food security and nutrition situation, June–August 2021 [online]. N’Djaména, Chad. [Cited 3 February 2021]. http://www.food-security.net/en/datas/chad/

Impact on food security

Chad continues to face a complex humanitarian crisis opportunities for many households thereby reducing their resulting from violence perpetrated by armed groups in the purchasing power. Cereal production has steadily declined Lake Chad Basin region, political instability, cross-border over the past three years and prices are generally higher conflicts, such as in the Sudan, Central African Republic and compared with the five-year average in the Sahelian zone, Libya, population displacements, as well as the effects of which is due to increased transportation costs linked to the climate-related shocks. containment measures.

In 2020, excessive rainfall led to localized flooding in the An early and difficult lean season in 2021 is expected, provinces of Ndjamena, the Mayo Kebbi East, the Mandoul especially in the Mandoul, Salamat and Mayo Kebbi East and in areas bordering the Lake Chad Basin. This has provinces, as well as in the Sahel provinces, with the number caused human casualties and loss of livelihoods, destroyed of people in high acute food insecurity projected to increase. hundreds of thousands of hectares of cultivated land and Providing timely livelihood assistance to vulnerable farmers harvests, washed away thousands of cattle and inundated and pastoralists is thus crucial to prevent them from markets. The heavy floods also disrupted movement and engaging in negative coping mechanisms and increase their supply routes. self-reliance.

Furthermore, the effects of the urgent and essential restrictive measures put in place by the Government to contain the spread of COVID-19 have disrupted the functioning of markets and limited income-generating

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