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Expectations for near-average harvest remain despite poor start of season, floods
KEY MESSAGES
• Despite heavy rains in August, rains must be well-distributed through the end of September to ensure maturation of cereal crops in surplus-producing areas of the center and southeast due to a late start of season and persistently low rainfall totals.
• Flash flooding and continued conflict in August is likely to result in a temporary increase in the number of food-insecure people in Sudan during the peak lean season (August to September)from4 million to 4.3 million people.
• SPLM-N-controlled areas of South Kordofan will remain most food insecure (IPC Phase 4) through September due to conflict impacts on trade and livelihoods during the peak of the agricultural lean season