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Food price volatility in Africa: Has it really increased?

The food price crisis of 2007–2008 and recent resurgence of food prices have focused increasing attention on the causes and consequences of food price volatility in international food markets and the developing world, particularly in Africa south of the Sahara. In this paper, we examine the patterns and trends in food price volatility using an unusually rich database of African staple food prices. We find that international grain prices have become more volatile in recent years (2007–2010) but no evidence that food price volatility has increased in the region.

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Somalia + 9 others
Regional mixed migration summary for December 2012

Djibouti

Total 2012 figures of migrants between Djibouti and Yemen: In 2012, a total of 107,532 persons arrived on the shores of Yemen. The number of migrants arriving in Yemen in 2012; were a 4 per cent increase from the 103,532 persons who arrived in Yemen in 2011, and more than double the 53,382 migrants who arrived in Yemen in 2010. 75 per cent or 80,465 persons who arrived in Yemen in 2012 travelled via Djibouti.

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Ethiopia + 8 others
Strategies and priorities for African agriculture

*Economywide perspectives from country studies *

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World + 24 others
Observatoire des prix : Prix de novembre

Messages clés :

  • En Afrique de l’Ouest, les prix des produits alimentaires étaient stables ou ont diminué en novembre tandis que leurs disponibilités continuaient à s’améliorer avec la campagne de commercialisation en cours. Des hausses de prix ont eu lieu plus tôt que prévu dans des centres urbains de la région et dans les zones structurellement déficitaires en raison des flux limités de produits en provenance des régions de production excédentaire.

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Tanzania Price Bulletin - December 2012

Maize is the main staple crop in Tanzania. Rice and beans are also very important, the latter constituting the main source of protein for most low- and middle-income households. Dar es Salaam is the main consumer market in the country. Arusha is another important market and is linked with Kenya in the north. Dodoma represents the central region of the country, a semi-arid, deficit area. Kigoma is an important cross-border market with connections to both the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi.

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République Démocratique du Congo : 2012 en revue (décembre 2012)

2012 a vu une augmentation constante du nombre de personnes deplacées internes, passant de 1,7 millions en décembre 2011 à près de 2,7 millions en décembre 2012. L'est du pays est demeuré très instable dû à l'insécurité née de la présence des différents groupes armés- au Katanga, la population déplacée interne a quintuplé.

La persistence et la resurgence de plusieurs maladies ont fragilisé des communautes déjà démunies. Dans le reste du pays, des poches humanitaires surgissent, le défi principal étant les programmes de développement.

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World + 5 others
HIV/Aids, ebola, Marburg dampen gains made in fight against malaria

Report
EastAfrican

By Joint Report The EastAfrican

In Summary

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World + 24 others
Price Watch: November Prices

Key messages:

• In West Africa, food prices were stable or decreased in November as staple food availability continued to improve with the ongoing marketing season. Some earlier-­than-­anticipated price increases occurred in region’s urban centers and structurally-­deficit zones due to limited commodity flows from surplus­producing areas.

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World + 4 others
Evidence, monthly UNISDR newsletter: issue 14, December 2012

This monthly newsletter highlights UNISDR activities around the world.

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Somalia + 9 others
Climate Prediction Center’s Africa Hazards Outlook For USAID / FEWS-NET December 27, 2012 – January 2, 2013

 Torrential rains continued for a second week across northern Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi.

 Locally heavy daily rains impacted parts of Kenya.

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The Path to Hope: Congolese Refugee Adolescent Girls in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania

Executive Summary

The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) completed a research mission to Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania in October 2012. The purpose was to gain understanding of Congolese refugee adolescent girls’ protection and empowerment needs; learn what existing program and community-based strategies appear to serve them; appraise gaps in services from girls’ perspectives; and identify potential local partners that could implement a pilot program focused on enhancing girls’ safety.

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World + 2 others
Counterfeit medicine from Asia threatens lives in Africa

Report
Guardian

Malaria is one of the diseases affected by unscrupulous traders in fake and substandard drugs

Read the full report on the Guardian.

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World + 5 others
Africa’s Mobile Health Revolution

By Kristin Palitza

DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 22 2012 (IPS) - A nurse working in a remote clinic in Mueda, a small town in northern Mozambique’s Makonde Plateau, receives a shipment of vaccines from the national health department. Using special software on her mobile phone, she sends out a mass text message to alert mothers in the area about the availability of immunisations.

She also uses the phone to schedule appointments, access patient records and order new vaccines when stock runs low.

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Zambia + 4 others
Southern Africa Seasonal Monitor December 21, 2012

KEY MESSAGES

-November dryness caused a delay in the start of season in many areas across the region.

-Poor rains during the 2011/12 agriculture season and low rainfall in November have resulted in persistent below-average vegetation conditions and reduced water availability.

-Good rains in early December could help reduce moisture deficits.

-Zambia has reported army worm infestations in several provinces and efforts to control the worms and replant crops are underway.

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Curbing Tanzania’s “Land Grabbing Race”

By Orton Kiishweko

DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 19 2012 (IPS) - From January 2013, Tanzania will start restricting the size of land that single large-scale foreign and local investors can “lease” for agricultural use. The decision follows both local and international criticism that major investors are grabbing large chunks of land here, often displacing small-scale farmers and local communities.

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AfDB Promotes Greater Access to Water and Sanitation Services in Zanzibar Tanzania

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved on December 19th 2012, a USD 21 million package to finance the implementation of the Zanzibar Urban Water and Sanitation Project in the United Republic of Tanzania. The Government will contribute 10% of the project costs.

The project will be implemented from 2013 in the Unguja municipality which is Zanzibar’s administrative center and the hub of its economic, cultural and tourist activities. It is scheduled to be completed after four years.

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Burundi + 1 other
Après l’exil, la lente réinsertion des rapatriés de Mutabila

Suite à une entente tripartite entre le HCR et les gouvernements tanzanien et burundais, le rapatriement massif de 35.000 burundais installés dans le camp de réfugiés de Mutabila débuté au mois d’octobre est entré aujourd’hui dans sa phase finale. Arrivés au Burundi, ils sont conduits dans leurs zones de provenance. Ceux qui n’ont plus de référence seront à terme installés dans des villages ruraux intégrés. Parmi ces personnes, beaucoup sont nés en l’exil et aimeraient retrouver la terre de leurs ancêtres.

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Somalia + 9 others
Climate Prediction Center’s Africa Hazards Outlook For USAID / FEWS-NET December 20 – December 26, 2012

1) Moisture deficits remain following a mid-season dry spell that occurred in early November in northern Kenya and southern Somalia and recent drier than average conditions for much of eastern Africa. With a shortened recovery period in the next several weeks for northern Kenya and southern Somalia and an extended period of dryness for southern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania, this could result in a deterioration of pastoral and agro-pastoral conditions.