NATIONAL DISASTER PREPAREDNESS PLAN FOR FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION SECTOR IN RWANDA

The nature, frequency, intensity, and duration of a disaster determines its impacts on different entities, including food security and nutrition, with smallholder farmers and the poor households in both urban and rural areas disproportionately affected. In Rwanda, disaster events such as drought, floods, landslides, volcano eruption, health pandemic exert a heavy toll on various sectors, and are jeopardizing food security and nutrition.