Senegal: Humanitarian Overview (as of 09 March 2016)

KEY DRIVERS OF THE CRISIS

While there is good food availability on markets and at the national level, crop production shortfalls in the Northeast will cause a premature depletion of food stocks and prolong the market dependency of affected households.

Recurrent shocks, poor infrastructure, as well as low and late funding continue to increase the overall chronic vulnerability and erode communities' resilience.

Poor households affected by floods during the last rainy season need to rebuild their livelihoods. As a result, these households will face stressed food insecurity (IPC 2) from June until the next round of harvests in October.