World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Overview

The Republic of Congo has a young and mostly urban population. More than half its 3.7 million inhabitants are under 20. Although one out of five children under five years of age suffers from chronic malnutrition, only two percent of the country’s 10 million hectares of arable land are currently exploited. This leads to massive imports, which represent about 70 percent of the country’s food needs, and often results in high food prices very dependent on international market prices.