Region starves as Tanzania seeks wider market for its surplus food
Internally-displaced Somalis wait for food at a distribution point in Mogadishu on July 26, 2011. An estimated 3.7 million people in Somalia - around a third of the population - are on the brink of starvation and millions more in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda have been struck by the worst drought in the region in 60 years. PHOTO | AFP
Distribution bottlenecks, food fights with potential customer states, non-tariff barriers and handling challenges hamper intra-EAC food trade.
The Food Security and Nutrition Working Group also reports that high food prices and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic have affected households' ability to buy food.
Amid the raging food crisis, some countries, like Tanzania, have food in stores but distribution bottlenecks, food fights with potential customer states, non-tariff barriers and handling challenges maintain the status quo.
