Rainfall performance has been poor across much of the region for the first half of the 2014/15 agriculture season and could have an adverse impact on household food security.
Malawi + 5 more
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Rainfall performance has been poor across much of the region for the first half of the 2014/15 agriculture season and could have an adverse impact on household food security.
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Food shortages and weak purchasing power will limit food availability and access, particularly for the urban poor and for households with ill or deceased family members, in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Maize harvests 50-75 percent below average are causing abnormally high maize prices and reduced livelihoods. Humanitarian assistance is needed immediately and through the next harvest in April.
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In Somalia, needs will be highest among IDPs and the pastoral destitute when the lean season approaches in October.
Humanitarian response programming for 1.97 million food insecure people is underway in 16 districts in southern Malawi.
Nearly all of the resources necessary to respond to the estimated 1.97 million people identified as food-insecure are secured
Humanitarian assistance is currently reaching approximately 700,000 people in nine districts in southern Malawi - less than half of those previously projected to be at risk of food insecurity
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Food security conditions to deteriorate as the lean season begins KEY MESSAGES Although food insecurity conditions in most parts of the region have remained Minimal (IPC Phase 1) since the beginning of the consumption period, conditions are expected to deteriorate over the next six months with the...
Maize prices rising even more than expected in southern Malawi Key Messages Limited household food access has resulted in a food insecurity Crisis (IPC Phase 3) in southern Malawi. Based on August analysis, FEWS NET estimates that 1.76 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance between...
Key Messages Based on the results of its post-harvest food security assessment, the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee (MVAC) has projected that in the April 2012 to March 2013 consumption period, 1.63 million people in 15 mainly southern districts will be unable to adequately access food...
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Conflict and expected poor harvest likely to result in emergency levels of food insecurity Key messages About four million people currently face Stressed (IPC Phase 2) and Crisis (IPC Phase 3) levels of food insecurity. Food insecurity is driven by conflict in Blue Nile, South Kordofan, Darfur,...