Katie Blake's List: broad on drc

• • program for armed conflict in DRC
• Since 1996, armed conflicts have caused an economic and social crisis in the  Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Annual gross domestic product per capita is US$119.

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• Renewed conflict in late-August 2008 in eastern areas of the  Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) intensified the humanitarian crisis  caused by more than 10 years of civil unrest and armed conflict.

  • late august 2008 = last outbreak of conflict
• Continuing insecurity and repeated human rights violations, compounded by the  impacts of climatic hazards and epidemics, have exhausted the coping strategies  of displaced populations and host communities.
• Conflict-induced displacement and loss of assets have dramatically decreased  agricultural production in DRC
• lack of strategic food stocks and storage capacity has placed additional strain  on local markets.
• An FAO Emergency Coordination and Rehabilitation Unit has been operational in  DRC since 1998.

  • the Food and Agricultural Organization is one organization already trying to help

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• , leading to loss of produce and further population displacements.
• Continued insecurity and severe droughts in eastern DRC have curtailed farming  activities

• The main obstacles to achievement of the MDGs – especially the Goals relating to  HIV/AIDS and hunger – are the consequences of governmental deficiencies and  insecurity in much of the country, mainly in Eastern Congo, where the  populations are often forced to flee because of recurrent combat

• Countries with severe localized food insecurity due to the influx of  refugees, a concentration of internally displaced persons, or areas with  combinations of crop failure and deep poverty.

• • biggest problem so most important factor
• Since 1996, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been cursed by conflict, which  has devastated and destabilised the country and claimed the lives of an  estimated five million civilians
• • why food production cannot be increased while conflict remains
• The eastern regions - Ituri, Katanga , North and South Kivu and Maniema - are  still plagued by violence.
• Over half a million have been displaced since March 2007
• While the eastern provinces used to be the major food producers of the country,  repeated looting of crops by armed groups and general insecurity over many years  has hugely undermined production.
• WFP’s core project for the period July 2007 - December 2009 is a relief  operation which targets people caught up in the armed conflict.

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