MOZAMBIQUE

Causes of water scarcity

• Mozambique is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to environmental disasters.
• In Mozambique, water scarcity is classified as medium, this means that there is up to a 20% probability that droughts will occur in the next 10 years.
• Drought refers to a prolonged period in which a region does not receive enough water to supply the needs of living things, such as plants and animals.

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• Causes:
• Some causes that fundamentally influence water scarcity are:
• The impact of climate change: In the dry season, there are clear skies, lots of sun and little rain
• Droughts: Little rain, which increases the areas physically affected by the drought itself.

CONSEQUENCES OF LACK OF WATER

• As we have already observed, it is one of the countries with the least access to clean water
• Its waters do not have the adequate treatment to get rid of bacteria and many people simply access the polluted water of the river.
• Despite the attempts to purify the water, it is still terribly contaminated and the inhabitants suffer from Cholera when they consume it.

WATER SCARCITY CAUSES:

• Health problems in the population
• Large migrations in search of better living conditions
• Species disappearance
• Generates famines
• Economic decline

Lack of food in Mozambique

• The main problem that generate the lack of food products is because in this areas the rain is no longer present.
• The high temperatures are causing that in the in crops and even in animals appear pests and infections that are killing to them.
• Also the lack of rain not just generate shortage of food, more frequent droughts, desertification, and strong winds that cause soil erosion and evaporation are consequences that affect in other way not only in the aspect of the nutrition to the humans

To afront this big problem of famine, the government decided buy essential products to international countrys, however, if the rulers are doing something about, we need add the severe economic recession, that impede that the population can acquire the basic products for survive like rice, oil, beans, etc., so the social problem can be add the economic problem that increase more the malnutrition specially in the kids and womens.

Consequences of Lack of food

• In rural areas, where the majority of the population lives, the main obstacle to food security is physical access to food, as the country's infrastructure, both markets and roads, was destroyed during the civil war. In urban areas, economic access to food is a major challenge, particularly in times of high food prices.
• In addition to being very poorly diversified and, consequently, extremely poor in protein and micronutrients, the diet does not provide enough energy to meet the population's energy needs. It is estimated that 64% of the population suffers from food insecurity.

While the prevalence of wasting (severe malnutrition) is low, the prevalence of stunting (chronic malnutrition) remains at a very high level (44 per cent in children under five in 2008), although a decline can be observed. Chronic malnutrition is more prevalent in the northern provinces, where chronic food insecurity is common and access to health services, water, sanitation and education is more limited than in the south.

Significant micronutrient deficiencies in the population are directly linked to an extremely micronutrient-poor diet. While short-term measures such as supplementation need to be further strengthened, it is also imperative to urgently invest in sustainable food-based strategies to combat chronic malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.

looking for improvement

• Five million Mozambicans, half the country's population, suffer the scourge of the iambre. They are figures from the Government of Maputo. Officially deaths from this cause in 1983 ranged from 15,000 to 25,000, although the data kept by the Red Cross put the figure up to half a million. The African country, which has suffered the most severe drought of the century,

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• The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) states that Mozambique has enormous untapped hydrographic potential.
• WFP chartered a 300-tonne flagged ship in the Seychelles, a real landing barge, with which they managed to bring corn and dried fish to the starving populations of southern Sofala and northern Inhambane.
• The fourth congress of Frelimo, held in May 1983, changed its policy. Now the private peasant is supported and the land is given - the inexhaustible land of this immense country as big as Spain and Italy together.