Evaluaciones

PR 01/100e Food situation in Somalia is deteriorating fast - in the Great Lakes region 2,5 million people live in misery and hunger - overall food supply in Sub-Saharan Africa better than a year ago Rome, 13 December - Many…

Assessment Study: June - September 20011 By Dechassa Lemessa, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia & Matthew Perault, Brown University, Providence, USA 1. Introduction and background Ethiopia has a total population of over 65 million with 3% annual growth rate and…

(From October/November Transitions Newsletter.) In order to more deeply analyze and address the nature of the problems relating to Disarmament, Demobilization and Durable Solutions (D3), UNDP/ERD led a mapping and programming mission to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and…

OVERVIEW The welfare and nutritional status of the population in Gedo continues to be a major concern to all humanitarian organisations and donors supporting activities there. While significant progress has been made in improving both the quality…

RI Advocates Veronika Martin and Anne Edgerton went on a one-month mission to Western Tanzania to visit Congolese and Burundian Refugee Camps. There are half of one million refugees in over one dozen camps. This was a thematic mission,…

The food situation in Somalia is rapidly deteriorating following the drought-reduced 2001 main "Gu" season harvest, the lowest in the last seven years. Recent heavy rains in neighbouring Ethiopian highlands have caused an overflow of rivers in parts of…

EDITORIAL This month, changes in the climatic outlook have brought about expectations of changes in the food security outlook too. However, FSAU believes that although the rainfall in the southern part of the country has improved pasture in a few…

Harvesting of the 2001 main "long rains" cereal crops is complete in the main growing areas of the Rift Valley, Western and Nyanza Provinces. The main rainy season (March-May), which normally accounts for 80 percent of total annual food…

Harvesting of the 2001 main "Meher" cereal crop is about to start. Overall prospects are favourable reflecting abundant rains during the growing season in major producing areas. The 2001 secondary "Belg" crop, normally harvested from June, was also good and…

Planting of the 2002 main season cereal crops in the unimodal central and southern areas, as well as that of 2001/02 short season ("Vuli" ) crops in bi-modal northern areas, is underway. With normal to above normal rainfall predicted…