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Building the Food Security Resilience of Communities in Papua New Guinea - TCP/PNG/3503

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The 2015-2016 El Niño event in the Pacific Ocean affected Papua New Guinea in the form of drought and frost. The lack of sustained rainfall and the repeated frost event resulted in a decrease in production from food gardens and therefore reduced the availability of food. The Government estimated that 2.4 million people were affected by drought and frost, 1.3 million of them severely. The major constraints included reduced access to clean drinking water and water availability for agriculture activities, reduced food availability and accessibility of food, a reduction in the number of meals to one per day in the most affected areas and crop losses and increased cases of plant diseases, leading to a lack of planting materials. As a result, there was a need for overall coordination of food security activities at national and provincial level and food security monitoring and planting material for farmers (drought tolerant crops and early-maturing varieties).

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