Nearly one in two Central Africans suffer from food insecurity and 300,000 children under five are estimated to suffer from severe acute malnutrition.
The IDA financed Agriculture Recovery and Agribusiness Development Support Project helps to strengthen the capacity of micro, small and medium agribusiness enterprises, bringing more jobs and food to people.
Some 329,000 smallholder farmers have received seeds, farming tools and training in agricultural and post-harvest techniques to become more resilient through the IDA financed Emergency Food Security Response project.

This morning in the Central Market of Bangui, many shoppers are sharing their concerns and daily struggles of putting enough food on the table for their families as food prices have increased over the past 12 months.

Food security in the Central African Republic has tipped to the point of emergency. Estimates show that approximately 2.4 million people suffer from food insecurity and nearly 300,000 children under five are estimated to suffer from severe acute malnutrition. Challenges people face every day have worsened due to more than 20% increase in key food prices over the past five years, and almost half of the Central African population is unable to meet its minimum daily food requirements.
Of the 6.1 million people living in Central Africa, more than 4.5 million (75%) depend on agriculture. Greater agricultural yields are, therefore, at the heart of the country’s economic transformation