The Mozambican authorities say that at least 1.4 million people, 900,000 of them in Cabo Delgado, are at risk of acute food security in the country, and the Observatório do Meio Rural (OMR) warns that the situation is much more serious, because one should not look only at the numbers of those affected, but the entire national social and economic context.

The Executive Secretary of the Technical Secretariat for Food Security, Leonor Mondlane, recognized that the situation is not good, because "from the assessment we made, we found that 1.4 million people are at risk of acute food insecurity.

She advanced that 900,000 of those affected are in Cabo Delgado province, which for about five years, has been affected by terrorist actions.

Meanwhile, Mariam Abas, a researcher at the Rural Environment Observatory, considers the food security situation in Mozambique to be serious, and it affects children in particular.

Abas quoted by VOA, noted that until very recently, 43% of Mozambican children under the age of five suffered from chronic malnutrition, a "very high number."

In the researcher's opinion, there are many factors that contribute to this situation, and she maintains that if they are not improved, it will not be possible to solve the problem of food security.

"I'm talking, for example, about drinking water sources, because in rural areas, people get their water from rivers or lakes, and these sources represent a health hazard, and we find that there is still a percentage of households that consume untreated water," he said.