Nabilatuk district food security and nutrition indicators have moved from emergency to crisis level.

This has caused excitement in the district leadership, with the chairman Paul Lokol saying for the first time Nabilatuk district has the number of very food insecure and hunger stressed persons undetectable yet every year between the months of June to July the community would be raising alarms over hunger related challenges.

Lokol attributes this improvement to strategies by the district and other stakeholders, citing the lowering of the storage fees at the food stores and the hiking of levies on buying of produce by middlemen in the district.

The district boss says the only burden that they are currently embattled with is malnutrition in which they are engaging stakeholders to ensure it also registers a decline.

Cue//…Lokol on food report

This is contained in the recently released IPC ACUTE FOOD INSECURITY ANALYSIS APRIL 2023 - FEBRUARY 2024.

According to the projection, the food security situation is expected to slightly improve in light of favorable agricultural and livestock production prospects for 2024 in the Karamoja region.

Of the nine districts in the region, five districts are anticipated to be in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) and four districts are anticipated to be in IPC Phase 2 (Stressed).

Abim, Amudat, Karenga and Nakapiripirit districts are anticipated to improve from IPC Phase 3 to IPC Phase 2, whereas Kaabong, Kotido, Moroto, Nabilatuk and Napak districts will remain in IPC Phase 3 as they have been classified in the current period.