Zimbabwe, Malawi and Angola most at risk in the Southern African region, Food and Agriculture Organisation says
Helplessly watching her maize turn yellow as she waited for free fertiliser from the government, Zimbabwean farmer Marian Kanenungo had nothing but makeshift compost from an anthill to help save her crop — and she had low hopes of that.
Sanctions on entities within major fertiliser exporter Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and a jump in the price of gas, crucial in the manufacture of nitrogen products, have pushed up prices of crop nutrients globally in the last year. The Zimbabwean government has a long-running input support scheme to help with costs. It increased the number of smallholder farmers covered by the scheme by 25% to 2.89-million during the 2022/2023 season, hoping to help more households cope with rising food inflation.
In Malawi, maize output is seen falling 4% this year, after the government’s Affordable Inputs Programme struggled to keep up with price increases, agriculture minister Sam Kawale said.
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