Evaluaciones

INTRODUCTION This is the second of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan…

EDITORIAL Lower than normal rainfall is placing increasing strain on the resources of pastoralists and has devastated a large proportion of the main sorghum crop production. This month's editorial draws attention to the mid and longer- term…

INTRODUCTION FSAU crop establishment field activities took place in late May and continued through early June. Though the figures mentioned in this report (historical data, established areas, projected cereal production) are certainly the most appropriate available for…

Statistical Update / World Refugee Survey 2001 Refugees Produced African refugees at start of 2001: 3.3 million Refugee increase in past year: 200,000 Refugee increase in past 2 years: 400,000 10 leading refugee-producing countries or territories in Africa: 1) Sudan: 460,000 2) Burundi: 420,000 …

HIGHLIGHTS RAINFALL : In southern Somalia poor Gu rainfall has badly affected agro-pastoralists in Gedo, Bay , Bakool as well as Hiran. In Northern Somalia, the Gu season has brought poor rains to most areas, with the…

RI Advocates, Veronika Martin and Anne Edgerton will be conducting a humanitarian assessment mission to Tanzania and the Congo. The numerous camps in western Tanzania host more than 500,000 refugees from Burundi, Congo, and Rwanda. Some of these camps have existed…

Record response time Earthquake in Peru - first use of new primary urgency procedure The European Commission, through its Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), responded quickly to the overnight news of the earthquake that shook southern Peru on 23 June. Following contacts with…

By Dechassa Lemessa, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia Background, objectives and methodology According to the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), national grain production in the year 2000 is higher than average but lower than the 1996 and 1998 harvests and still slightly higher…

About 375,000 refugees and asylum seekers from Somalia lived in about two-dozen countries at the end of 2000: some 160,000 in Kenya, about 120,000 in Ethiopia, some 55,000 in Yemen, 20,000 in Djibouti, 4,000 in Egypt, 3,000 in Tanzania,…

Kenya hosted approximately 230,000 refugees at the end of 2000: an estimated 160,000 from Somalia, more than 55,000 from Sudan, about 8,000 from Ethiopia, about 5,000 from Uganda, and nearly 5,000 from other countries. Some 100,000 Kenyans were internally displaced. Approximately 5,000…