Approximately 2.6 million people in Cameroon are currently facing Crisis (Phase 3) or worse levels of acute food insecurity and are in need of food assistance—an increase of nearly 1.7 million people from the same period in 2019—according the latest Cadre Harmonisé (CH) analysis.

Since November 2021, Cameroon is experiencing high inflation, driven mainly by shortage and increase of the price of staple goods (bread, wheat and related products), which can be explained by the disruption of the global value chain due to Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war.

The World Food Programme has an ongoing programme to deliver food to 200,000 Cameroonians in the far north, who have faced crop failure, livestock losses and high food prices that have barred them from being able to access food. Over half of families in northern Cameroon live in poverty.

The ongoing conflict in the English speaking regions of Cameroon, is having its tool on the farming sector, with the displacement of hundreds of thousands of farmers in the rural areas, for safety reasons. With some calm relatively returning, it is necessary for incentives as those promoted by RAID, to them return to their farms and mitigate the food crisis being experience.