The World Food Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization are working together with farming families in C.A.R. to ensure they have food now as well as at the next harvest. This infographic explains how.

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Sowing Seeds for Change
in the Central African Republic (CAR)
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Nearly 1 million people are still displaced inside
CAR or seeking refuge
in neighbouring countries.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme are working together
in CAR to improve farming communities’ access to food.
Families have been forced to sell
what they own, pull their kids out of school,
even resort to begging to survive.
FAO and WFP have about half of the funding that they need for the
upcoming planting season. People in CAR cannot afford to receive only
1/2 of the support they need.
Crop production in 2015 compared to 2012*
*2012: pre-crisis
Number of cattle compared to 2012* Increase in food prices compared to 2012*
The number of hungry people has doubled
in 1 year, as conflict and insecurity have led to
limited access to and availability of food.
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sale
−54% −50%
+74%
CAR is already the 3rd most
undernourished country in the world.
Some 75% of people in CAR depend on agriculture.
People need food to survive, and seeds and tools for planting so that they have
food at the next harvest. This means that when times are tough and food is scarce,
families don’t have to resort to eating the seeds that are meant for planting.
WFP provides groundnuts, maize, rice, sorghum, and beans for families
to prepare meals to eat now and during the growing season. FAO provides
crop and vegetable seeds for sowing to the same families so they can eat
in the future too.
Each year starting in 2014, WFP and FAO work in synch to provide seeds and food
to nearly 100 000 hungry farming families before their planting season starts.
This partnership and the co-leadership of the Food Security Cluster
enhances the coordination and impact of each agencies’ work to reduce
hunger now and in the years to come.