THE security challenges in the Northeast may have led to increase in the poverty rate among the people in rural communities, an international non-governmental organisation, Save the Children, has said.
It said people in the region can no longer access their farms, adding that they cannot produce as much as they used to.
According to the organisation, the normal livelihood of people in the region had been disrupted, leading to increased vulnerability.
Save the Children Head of Food Security and Livelihood Chachu Tadicha, at the unveiling of the Household Economy Analysis (HEA) in Abuja yesterday, said: “We know that conflict affects people’s livelihood. For example, the farmers will not have access to land and even in very rich productive areas in the Northeast, people can no longer access their farms.
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“Therefore, they cannot produce as much as they used to produce. This affects access to food. At the same time, it also affects their access to income because the businesses they used to depend on are disrupted and their trade route is disrupted.
”This increases vulnerability and contributes to poverty. The conflict has contributed a lot to vulnerabilities in the affected communities.”
Assistant National Technical Manager, Famine Early Warning System Network Chinedu Anyaegbu said people in four livelihood zone states in the region needed N7,192, 685, 000 as cash support.
He also said they needed about 41, 923, 000 grain support.
Also, the Principal Statistician at the National Bureau of Statistics, Bishop Ohioma, called on both the Federal and state governments to make budgetary provisions for Cadre Harmonise and HEA analysis.
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