RDC – Campagne agricole Saison A 2026 : la FAO appuie plus de 54.000 ménages dans sept provinces

Rebecca harvests peanuts in Kabalo, Democratic Republic of Congo on 24th February 2021. Rebecca has been receiving WFP support since 2014, when she started participating in a joint WFP/FAO resilience project through which she received agricultural training, tools, and seeds (from FAO) as well as literacy training and cash assistance (through WFP). Thanks to the training and financial support she received, Rebecca now produces food from her own fields and runs a small business to support her daily family needs. [As of 30 March] The Democratic Republic of Congo has more people living in hunger than any other country in the world - over 27 million people are food insecure. Escalating conflict remains the key driver of hunger with large swathes of the eastern provinces of Ituri, North and South Kivu and Tanganyika, as well as the central region of the Kasais worst affected. Families have had to sell valuable assets to buy food and many are left with no choice but to skip meals, sometimes, for an entire day. WFP plans to reach 8.7 million people in DRC in 2021 despite an extremely tough operating environment. WFP’s response is mainly taking the form of in-kind food and cash distributions for the most vulnerable, the treatment and prevention of malnutrition among children and women, and hot meals for school children. Resilience building activities now reach 518,000 people in five provinces. WFP resilience-building in fragile environments is also key to stabilisation and peace. Direct support to community farming to boost yields, reduce losses and spur access to markets helps create a pathway to peace. Other key components are providing women with training in literacy, business and leadership skills - and helping to ease ethnic tensions through activities where all ethnic groups work together to create common assets.