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Mission Highlights - Maize production in 2002 is estimated at 1 539 000 tonnes, 10 percent below last year's poor harvest. The major cause was erratic rainfall with long dry spells. - Cereal supply in 2002/03 marketing year…

Mission Highlights - Zimbabwe is facing a serious food crisis, even at harvest time, and unless international food assistance is provided urgently and adequately, there will be a serious famine and loss of life in the coming months. - Cereal production…

Released by the Bureau of African Affairs Report of the International Eminent Persons Group ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We gratefully acknowledge the generous assistance and valuable information provided to us by Sudanese from a wide range of viewpoints and allegiances - so many…

"A short-term relief effort is required to avert widespread hunger." ATLANTA (May 21, 2002) - Drought conditions in Zambia have left families with widespread crop damage and prospects of hunger and malnutrition, according to a report released today by the international…

GEDO As the crisis in Gedo Region continues to develop, humanitarian organisations have intensified coordination efforts in an attempt to ensure delivery of basic services to Somali people on both sides of the Kenya / Somalia border.…

The Zimbabwe Ministry of Agriculture recently released its first area and production estimates for the 2001/02 corn crop, which is now maturing and will be harvested over the next two months. According to the report, planted…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Following on Save the Children-UK's report on the food crisis in Malawi, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) during the Rome meeting of 13-14th February decided to send a UN mission to this country to assess the severity of…

"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…

EDITORIAL Food security in Somalia was enhanced by the above-average Deyr harvest in Southern Somalia but close surveillance of food availability and access is still critical in both Gedo Region in the southwest and Awdal Region in the northeast. Good…

CEREAL PRODUCTION OVERVIEW FSAU’s Deyr crop harvest assessment took place in southern Somalia late January/early February 2002. A workshop was conducted in Baidoa by FSAU in collaboration with FEWS Net in the second week of February. Though…