Why is Uganda experiencing a food crisis?
Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Food emergency deepens across Uganda’s Karamojalist 2 of 3Death toll from Uganda school bus crash rises to 24list 3 of 3Ebola infections in DR Congo surge to 3,200, with 1,405 deathsend of listThe government has now begun emergency food distribution in Karamoja, but the worsening drought is reviving memories of the 2022 hunger crisis, which killed more than 2,000 people.
Sam Engola, minister for disaster preparedness and refugees, launched the aid distribution efforts on July 22 and wrote on X the following day that Uganda had also held a meeting with the World Food Programme (WFP) to “discuss the ongoing government interventions of providing food relief to vulnerable families and establishing effective and equitable strategies to support those affected by the hunger crisis”.
Kristof Titeca, an assistant professor at the Institute of Development Policy and Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, whose work has focused on Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, said the food crisis is due to a combination of issues – climate change is just one cause of the drought.
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