Food insecurity in Mozambique could affect more than one million people due to combined effects of climate and human action, the Coordinating Council of the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN) announced today.

Most of the people at risk of facing severe starvation are in Cabo Delgado province. This group of people have lost their food reserves due to terrorist incursions.

The Executive Secretary of the Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition, Leonor Mondlane, said that the sector is attentive and monitoring the situation.

"Fortunately we don't have a famine situation. Mozambique was recently taken off the list of countries susceptible to hunger, but about 1,400,000 people are at risk of food insecurity, of which about 900,000 are in Cabo Delgado," said Leonor Mondlane, cited by RM.

The monitoring that SETSAN is carrying out throughout the country has already covered six provinces and will allow a better assessment of the situation and provide appropriate assistance to those affected, according to Mondlane.

"We are working to create human conditions so that these families can survive, because food security covers various aspects of life," Mondlane said at the XI Coordinating Council of the Technical Secretariat for Food and Nutrition Security.