For years, Chad has been suffering with the nation’s food stability. Chad’s food insecurity has been affected by multiple different factors: the arid Central African environment, its landlocked location, and the rapidly increasing arrival amount of Sudanese refugees. Erratic rains, constant droughts, locust infections, and poor farming practices are all heavy factors that gradually decrease cereal production, which approximately 80% of Chad’s population relies on to support their livelihoods. In 2015, the World Food Program proclaimed that “Chad ranked 116 out of 117 countries on the global hunger index.” The arrival of thousands of Sudanese refugees has managed to put additional pressure on finite resources, placing supplementary stress
