Months after severe flooding swept through Mozambique's southern and central provinces between late December 2025 and early 2026, affected communities are now confronting a second crisis: widespread hunger. The floods destroyed approximately 275,000 hectares of farmland and damaged key transport routes, causing food prices to spike sharply as local production collapsed and supply chains broke down, according to the UN's World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization. With families already weakened by a preceding El Niño-linked drought, experts warn that the rapid succession of disasters is outpacing communities' ability to recover, leaving hundreds of thousands of farmers without livelihoods or reliable access to food.