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Intensified conflict in border areas increases the size of the food insecure population

Key messages

• The size of the food insecure population has increased from 4.5 million people last month to 4.7 million in April, due to increased conflict in some parts of South Kordofan and reduced access to food because of gradual depletion of food stocks at the household level and atypically high prices across most key markets.

The objective of the KU-CFSVA was to analyze the food security, nutritional status and vulnerability of the urban population of Kenya, to provide baseline information to the policy-makers and practitioners, and to identify interventions. For the purpose of this study, high-density, low-income urban areas only were considered.

Key messages

• Planned and ongoing food aid programs should keep very poor and poor households in potential problem areas (livelihood zones 8, 9, 7, and 5) in Phase 2 (stressed) of the IPC acute food insecurity phase scale between now and June.

• Problems in the far north (livelihood zone 8) and far east (the eastern reaches of livelihood zone 9) will reach crisis proportions between July and September with the steady influx of Malian refugees into livelihood zone 8 and increases in grain prices in both areas.

Le conflit aggrave l’insécurité alimentaire au nord Mali

L'insécurité alimentaire aiguë actuelle et projetée dans les régions de Tombouctou, Gao, et Kidal (voir Perspectives de FEWS NET Mali avril '12) est plus grave et généralisée que prévue en mars en raison des impacts du conflit en fin mars. À la mi‐avril plus de 240.000 personnes (~20 pour cent de la population des régions du nord) ont été déplacées, dont environ 147.000 se sont refugiées au Niger, au Burkina Faso, en Mauritanie et en Algérie.

Food security worsens in northern Mali due to conflict

Key messages
The arrival of nearly 60,000 Malian refugees (nearly 30,000 in mid-March) in border communities (especially Fassala) has not yet led to strong shocks on local markets.

Grain prices are relatively stable since January, easing access to imported food, particularly imported substitution foods and especially wheat.

The government assistance program is underway, but some of the components (free distribution) are not fully funded. The WFP assistance program which aims to support 510,000 Mauritanians for five months is not yet fully resourced.

La campagne agropastorale 2011/2012 n’a pas répondu aux attentes des populations sahéliennes

Situation de la production agricole et alimentaire

Une production céréalière déficitaire dans la région sahélienne : les résultats définitifs des enquêtes agricoles menées dans les pays ont fait ressortir un déficit céréalier de production brute de 2 281 000 tonnes pour l’espace CILSS, 1 846 186 tonnes pour l’espace UEMOA et 2 447 633 tonnes pour l’espace CEDEAO, soit respectivement en valeur relative des baisses de 27 %, 17 % et 7 % par rapport à l’année dernière.