Highlights: • Average to above.average rainfall improved water crop and pasture conditions catalysing agricultural and pastoral opportunities in most parts of the region, increasing the above-average...
DR Congo + 16 more
DR Congo + 16 more
Highlights: • Average to above.average rainfall improved water crop and pasture conditions catalysing agricultural and pastoral opportunities in most parts of the region, increasing the above-average...
DR Congo + 16 more
Highlights • 51.3 million people are projected to be food insecure in Southern Africa (Figure 1). The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to magnify the scale and severity of food insecurity. • 2.3...
DR Congo + 12 more
HIGHLIGHTS: • 44.7 million people are projected to be food insecure largely due to the cumulative effects of climate-induced shocks compounded by widespread poverty, chronic malnutrition,...
DR Congo + 14 more
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Climate Prediction Centre is predicting El Niño climatic conditions during the main 2018-19 growing season with 70-75% probability while IRI has increased the probability to...
DR Congo + 14 more
Key messages • The 2017-18 rainfall season was characterized by a late start, an extended mid-season dry spell (December-January) and heavy rains from February into April. The dry spell caused...
DR Congo + 14 more
Key Messages Cereal production during the upcoming harvest season in Southern Africa is expected to be below average, despite the heavy late rains, which benefitted the late planted crops. This is...
South Africa + 12 more
Key Messages Good performance of the current growing season (Oct 2016 – April 2017) is critical for Southern Africa, after suffering from two consecutive droughts induced by a long lasting El Niño...
South Africa + 12 more
Key Messages Nearly 29 million people are currently food insecure in southern Africa region mainly due to the carry-over effects of the past poor harvest season combined with other structural...
Zimbabwe + 11 more
A. REGIONAL UPDATE Regional crop production, especially for cereal is expected to decrease as a result of the uncharacteristic and erratic 2014/15 rainfall season that reduced the productive capacity...
Zimbabwe + 9 more
Regional Update While favourable food security conditions prevail across most of southern Africa, early warning signs provide alarming indications of looming significant food supply shortages that...
Angola + 10 more
REGIONAL HIGHLIGHTS · Good rains received in December and early January significantly reduced earlier rainfall deficits experienced in the central parts of the region. Although much later than...