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While the onset of the harvest helped to improve food consumption and reduce prices, the ongoing conflicts and flooding continue to impinge on livelihoods, hamper accesstoland, and drive food insecurity in parts of the northeast.
Key Points
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Early green harvests and the ongoing humanitarian assistance contributed to improvements in food consumption in most of the areas in the northeast except Southern Adamawa where floods and communal conflict between farmers and herders induced losses of crops and limited access to farming and grazing lands
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The proportion of households with poor food consumption among all socio-demographic groups (male-headed and female-headed households, displaced and non-displaced households, and farming and non-farming households) continued to decline for the second month in a row.
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There was a significant reduction in the proportion of households that rely on negative coping strategies to meet their food needs in September 2018 compared to August 2018, which marked the peak of the lean season.
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Despite the observed improvements, there is a need to sustain ongoing food and livelihood assistance for those that are fully dependent on humanitarian assistance in order to prevent deterioration of their food security condition