The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has received a US$ 5 million contribution from the Republic of Korea to provide lifesaving food and nutrition assistance to 187,000 people affected by drought in northern Ghana.
This contribution comes amidst soaring food prices, exacerbated by large-scale crop and livestock production losses due to extended weeks of reduced rainfall in northern Ghana.
A joint statement by the Republic of Korea and the WFP said the intervention would enable the WFP to provide emergency cash transfers to 187,000 Ghanaians among those struggling to feed themselves as a result of food price increases, low seasonal production, and earlier than normal depletion of households' food stocks.
A report from the Northern Regional Department of Agriculture reveals that a total of 460,784 hectares of farms, representing 60 per cent of the region's cultivated land, have been affected by prolonged dry spell.
