THE Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has urged government to scale up social protection programmes in order to cushion the hunger crisis. Speaking on Hot FM, Thursday, JCTR Social and Economic Development Officer Lukwesa Musonda said JCTR was concerned about the nutrition status of the country as people were compromising the number of meals consumed in a day. “Despite a reduction in the overall basket, what we observed in comparison to last year September, there was a reduction of about K1,300. Obviously, I think we’ve talked about the effects of the drought and how it has affected food supply and production, and that has affected the food prices through the entire 2024 since January. So we’ve observed that the...