Vice President Saulos Chilima has said district councils should start directing resources towards interventions that would contribute to building community resilience in disaster-prone areas.
\nChilima said there is a need to redesign and prioritise resilience building interventions so that the country could deal with the challenge of food insecurity.
\n\u201cAlthough the government is doing everything possible to ensure that all the affected households in every disaster, including food insecurity, are assisted accordingly, we need to start directing our resources to resilience-building interventions,\u201dChilima said during the launch of the 2017\/18 Lean Season Food Insecurity Response Plan and distribution of relief food.
\nThe relief items were donated by the Chinese government.
\n\u201cThat will not be the responsibility of the district councils alone but even development partners and civil society organisations,\u201d he said.
\nOn the issue of the fall army worm, Chilima assured people, farmers in particular, that the government would do everything within its mandate to ensure that the pests were controlled.
\n\u201cI am aware that the risk of losing our crop due to the fall army worm is still high. I would like to urge the Ministry of Agriculture to help our famers contain the fall army worm,\u201d said the Veep
\nUnited Nations Development Programme Resident Representative, Florence Rolle, concurred with the Vice-President on the need to come up with measures that would contribute to efforts to build resilience in the communities.
\nRolle emphasised that cash transfers were not enough to address challenges affecting food-insecure people in the country.
\n\u201cI think there is more to be done to ensure that the country achieves food security. There is need to encourage interventions that can build resilience among communities. One of such interventions is encouraging irrigation farming,\u201d Rolle said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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