Malawi: Food Insecurity Humanitarian Update, October 2013
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The Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Report of June 2013 projects the food insecure population to be 1,461,940 in 21 districts. These people are reported to be having missing food entitlements for a range of 3 to 5 months from October onwards.
The food security situation is expected to deteorate due to a number of factors: green harvesting that occurred among food insecure households the previous season due to the late onset of rain, increasing prices of food commodities, low supply of maize on the local markets and unavailability of maize in the government markets.
Humanitarian actors are currently finalizing response plans for responding to the humanitarian needs this year. It has prioritized 3 clusters such as Food Security and agriculture, health and nutrition and protection.
The total resource required is US$70.8 million for 1.5 million and $110.8 million for 1.9 million people.