Agenzia Fides REPORT - Many places in southern Mauritania, an area mainly devoted to agriculture and cattle breeding, are facing a food crisis that threatens to degenerate into famine if no action is taken immediately. The agricultural season of 2011 ended with a deficit close to 52% of normal annual production. To this one must add the rising prices of food. In the region of Gorgol 29 villages and 3,100 people have already been identified who find themselves in very precarious situations. To deal with the situation, the AGPI, a local social NGO of the Catholic organization Manos Unidas, is working to prevent further price increases buying as soon as possible cerial, seeds and legumes, which will be distributed among the families who will be selected by civil and religious authorities of every village. With the contribution of Manos Unidas this campaign of extraordinary aid for the rural population will be able to start, which has the objective of limiting the seriousness of food emergency in the villages of Sahel and will allow to sow the fields in anticipation of new rains. (AP) (Agenzia Fides 14/3/2012)
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