Vanuatu Food Security

Vanuatu Food Security and Agriculture Cluster deploys 62 Officers for Detailed Loss and Damage Assessment

Six teams have been sent to Ambrym, Pentecost, Santo and Ambae. 

A team was already deployed last week to Malekula.

The officers will work with volunteers and other partners on the ground.

While immediate response of food supplies is currently underway in affected areas, officers were deployed purposely to access detailed information on loss and damage done on agriculture, livestock, pests and diseases encountered, forestry and fisheries.

Rural women building food security

The community-based Food Security project is working with women from churches across Vanuatu to train them on how to conduct their own food security assessments in their village. The training also looks at how to prepare food supplies so that village families are more resilient in times of disaster.

The training has been organised by Vanuatu Christian Council. ‘Food security’ means that everyone has enough healthy and safe food all the time to have a strong and healthy life.