Grapevine

3 in 10 Ugandans going without food daily

As Uganda today joins the rest of the world to mark World Food Day, at least three in every 10 households will skip a meal or not eat at all for the entire day.

Mr Moses Mbuusi, a statistician at the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Ubos), defined severe food insecurity as frequent and prolonged periods of insufficient food intake due to a lack of money and other resources.

“Households with severe food insecurity are households that skip a meal and end up going the whole day without food,” he said.

The 2024 National Population and Housing Census released recently by Ubos shows that the sub-regions of Karamoja, Bukedi, Teso, Lango and Elgon had the greatest percentage of extremely food insecure households.

The report also indicates that six in every 10 households were experiencing severe food insecurity in Karamoja Sub-region and only 19 percent of the households are food secure.