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Harare - Zimbabwe Highlights - Land preparation and planting commenced after significant late October rains... Northern and central parts of SADC reported normal to above normal rainfall of between 31 to 150 mm between late October into early November, enabling land…

Highlights The global supply and demand balance for cereals is pointing to a tighter situation in 2002/03 than was anticipated earlier in the wake of deteriorating crop prospects in a number of major producing countries. Based on the production and…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction In response to the opening brought about by the recent and unexpected peace in Angola, USAID undertook a review of the current USAID/Angola program. A multi-sector team was fielded to assess the need for modifications and/or expansions of…

QUAKER INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS REPRESENTATIVE "SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT" ANGOLA Regional Overview Peace and Social Change Africa has been labeled as a troubled continent. The people and nations of its Southern region have a long history of conflicts and destabilizing wars, many of which have…

PR 02/91 JOHANNESBURG/ROME, 26 August 2002 - The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today urged donor countries to commit critically needed food aid and financial support to Southern Africa to avert a large scale humanitarian crisis. The call came…

PR 02/82 ROME, 1st July 2002 - In Angola, the number of people in urgent need of food assistance is estimated at 1.4 million, according to a joint report released today by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and…

HighlightsRegional all-cereals deficit has worsened to 5.34 million tonnes... Confirming the food crisis confronting the region, latest assessments show that SADC faces an all cereals deficit of 5.34 million tonnes for the 2002/2003 marketing year. This…

By Christian Dietrich The Study Hard Currency: The Criminalized Diamond Economy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its Neighbours is an Occasional Paper of the Diamonds and Human Security Project, a joint initiative of Partnership Africa…

"We have seen hardly any little children under five. Lots of them had already died," said Mercedes Tataï, MSF's medical emergency coordinator in Chipindo. "A whole hill has been covered with fresh graves since September" - Chipindo, April 2002 Malnutrition witnessed…

INTRODUCTION This is the first issue in 2002 of this quarterly report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation, cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries…