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afrol News, 6 September - The Cape Verdean government on Thursday established an inter-ministerial committee to, among other things, help to reduce the nutritional impact of this year's bad harvest to a possible minimum. The committee, which was established yesterday, thereby will have as its main task to coordinate the humanitarian strategies, by the means of dedicating "special attention to food security, public health and nutrition and the public labour," according to an announcement by a civil servant of the government offices made today. According to a statement by the spokesman of the Ministry of Labour explained, it was still "too early to make a definitive conclusion saying it had been a bad agricultural year, but all the facts point at that direction." In the same way, the data which are available at this moment all indicate that this year's harvests around Cape Verde have been of a very low quantity. This was caused by an almost total lack of rain in some parts of the archipelago and an all over annual precipitation much lower than the usual average. The Cape Verdean government already has announced that it has established contact with his international allies to ask for the necessary aid and to take help alleviate the consequences what very probably is turning out as a very bad year for agriculture. In the month of June, Cape Verde had received food aid worth US$ 1.3 million from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which was distributed among an undernourished population of 30,000 Cape Verdeans. The islands principally benefiting from this program were Santiago and São Antão, which are also the islands with the highest population of the Sahelian country.
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