A recent study by the World Food Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organisation indicated that 30 percent of people living in Karamoja are either in the crisis or emergency phase of acute food insecurity due to poor harvests in 2021 — a result of prolonged droughts and the Covid-19 pandemic.
In addition, the Global Assessment Report (GAR): Special Report on Drought 2021 by the UN states that prolonged droughts are likely to be “the next pandemic” in Africa as the continent faces “exponential collateral damage”.
