Key Messages
- Food availability throughout Mauritania,
Mali, and Senegal is above average. Moreover, demand for agricultural labor,
a key source of income for the poorest households, has been average to
above average, and prices for coarse grains are below last year's prices
in most southern rural markets. Food access is currently the best in five
years.
- In isolated areas that are or may be
significantly affected by poor local production, Rift Valley Fever, or
crop damage from desert locusts, low demand for labor in rural and urban
