{"id":115007,"date":"2026-02-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=115007"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:00:00","slug":"12-5-million-ghanaians-still-face-food-insecurity-gss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=115007","title":{"rendered":"12.5 million Ghanaians still face food insecurity \u2013 GSS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Alhassan Iddrisu, the Government\u2019s Statistician, says 12.5 million Ghanaians, representing 38.1 per cent of the population, remain food insecure according to the Ghana Statistical Service Food Insecurity Report.<\/p>\n

The report considered food insecurity in Ghana between the period 2024 Q1 to 2025 Q3.<\/p>\n

Although approximately 900,000 people exited food insecurity between the second and third quarters of 2025, the overall trend since early 2024 remained an upward climb in vulnerability.<\/p>\n

During the release of the report in Accra on Tuesday, Dr Iddrisu emphasised that while the recent reduction of 3.7 million food-insecure people since 2022 was a significant achievement, the current figure of 12.5 million remained a crisis-level concern that required urgent national attention to reduce to the barest minimum.<\/p>\n

The report highlighted a deep structural inequality, with gender and geography playing decisive roles in who goes hungry.<\/p>\n

He said food insecurity was consistently higher in female-headed households, peaking at 44.1 per cent in the first half of 2025.<\/p>\n

By the third quarter, the gender gap between male and female-headed households widened to 6.2 percentage points, reflecting persistent disparities in income, employment opportunities, and caregiving responsibilities.<\/p>\n

The Upper West Region remains the hardest hit, recording a prevalence rate of 55.9 per cent, followed by the Volta Region at 50.1 per cent and the North East at 45.9 per cent.<\/p>\n

These figures stand in stark contrast to the national average of 38.1 per cent, Dr Iddrisu said.<\/p>\n

The Oti Region recorded the lowest prevalence, dropping to 18.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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