12th April 2024, Nairobi, Kenya: As Sudan faces one of the most severe humanitarian crises in recent history, urgent action is needed to prevent a looming humanitarian tragedy. This is as the...
Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) Updates
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Burundi + 10 more
FSNWG Food Security and Nutrition Snapshot, February 2024
Key messages • In February 2024, an estimated 74 million people in the region were highly food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. This includes 58.2 million people, according to...
DR Congo + 10 more
FSNWG Food Security and Nutrition Update, January 2024
Key messages High levels of acute food insecurity persisted in various parts of the region, following El Niño-induced heavy rains and flooding during the 2023 OctoberDecember (OND) rainfall season,...
Ethiopia + 10 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (January 2024, Volume 44)
The Market Analysis Sub-group of the Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) monitors informal cross-border trade of 88 food commodities and livestock in eastern Africa in order to quantify...
Ethiopia + 10 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (October 2023, Volume 43)
Key Messages The share of maize in East Africa’s cross-border trade declined from 31 to 27 percent between the second (April to June) and third (July to September) quarters of 2023 due to increased...
World + 9 more
FSNWG Special Report: El Niño and Positive Indian Ocean Dipole to have Significant Multi-Sectoral Impacts in East Africa (11 October 2023)
KEY MESSAGES ● El Niño conditions are currently present and are forecast to continue through at least early next year. In East Africa, El Niño impacts vary geographically. Across western parts, El...
DR Congo + 10 more
FSNWG Food Security and Nutrition Update, August 2023
Key messages Based on recent IPC2 data, about 65.8 million people in 10 of the 13 countries covered by the FSNWG were highly food insecure (IPC Phase 3+) in August 2023. Of these, 35.4 million were...
Ethiopia + 10 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (July 2023, Volume 42)
Key Messages The share of maize in East Africa’s cross-border trade declined from 48 to 31 percent between the first (January to March) and second (April to June) quarters of 2023 as supplies...
Ethiopia + 11 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (March 2023, Volume 41)
Key Messages The share of maize in East Africa cross-border trade increased to 48 percent in January to March 2023 from 34 percent in October to December 2022 because of below-average production in...
DR Congo + 10 more
FSNWG Food Security and Nutrition Update, March 2023
Key messages According to the IPC2 , at least 55.3 million people in 10 of the 13 countries covered by the FSNWG were highly food insecure (IPC Phase 3+) in March 2023. Of these, 25.8 million were...
Ethiopia + 11 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (October 2022, Volume 39)
Key Messages Maize grain remained the most traded commodity in the region in the third quarter of 2022 (July to September) as shown in Figure 1 above and trade flows remained above average due to...
Ethiopia + 11 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (July 2022, Volume 38)
Summary Points Maize grain remained the most traded commodity in the region in the first quarter of 2022 (January to March) as shown in Figure 1 above. Wheat and maize flour surpassed dry beans as...
Ethiopia + 2 more
FSNWG Drought Special Report July 2022
Extremely high levels of food insecurity observed across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia and further deteriorations likely with between 23 - 26 million people becoming highly food insecure due to...
Ethiopia + 10 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (April 2022, Volume 37)
Summary Points Maize grain remained the most traded commodity in the region in the first quarter of 2022 between January and March as shown in Figure 1. Wheat and maize flour surpassed dry beans as...
Ethiopia + 2 more
FSNWG Drought Alert, April 2022
A delayed onset of the rains increases the likelihood of a deterioration in an already dire food security, WASH, health and nutrition situation across the eastern Horn of Africa INTRODUCTION In...
DR Congo + 9 more
FSNWG Food Security and Nutrition Update, January 2022
Key messages Parts of the region are experiencing moderate to severe drought conditions, largely driven by consecutive seasons of below-average rains. Southern and south-eastern Ethiopia, northern...
Ethiopia + 2 more
Special Report: Multi-season drought drives dire food security situation
10 February 2022 KEY MESSAGES The performance of 2021 October-December “short rains/Deyr” rainy season was extremely poor, characterized by a delayed onset of seasonal rains, an erratic temporal...
Ethiopia + 2 more
FSNWG Drought Special Report February 2022
The performance of the 2021 October-December “short rains/Deyr” rainy season was extremely poor, characterized by a delayed onset of seasonal rains, an erratic temporal distribution, and...
Ethiopia + 10 more
East Africa Cross Border Trade Bulletin (January 2022, Volume 36)
Summary Points • Maize remained the most traded food commodity in the East Africa region in the fourth quarter of 2021, followed by rice, wheat flour, sugar, sorghum, and dry beans respectively. •...
Ethiopia + 2 more
Food Security Alert: Action required now to mitigate the likely impacts of the forecast poor rainy season, 12 October 2021
Parts of the East Africa region, particularly eastern Kenya, southern Somalia, and certain Belg-receiving areas of Ethiopia, have already experienced two consecutive poor rainy seasons (Figures 1 and...