Evaluaciones

In the wake of recent threats from Desert Locusts FAO and WFP released the results of joint assessment missions to Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal. Following is an overview of reports on the crop and food prospects in four countries:…

Highlights Agricultural production in 2004 has been severely affected by locust infestations and drought in the northern regions of Niger causing a total loss of cereal production estimated at an average of 26 percent in the affected…

Highlights Devastating infestations of desert locusts in the main agricultural areas of Mauritania were noted since the start of the rains in June and July, and continued throughout the growing season. Millet and legumes (cowpeas and groundnut) suffered…

Highlights At the time of writing this report, the Mali government had not yet published its preliminary harvest estimates. The mission based its own estimates on historical production data together with data on crop losses from a…

Risk Assessment: As the graphs above make plain, in a region where turmoil and violence are the norm Rwanda has emerged as an island of stability. What they do not reveal is what lies at the heart…

Risk Assessment: The prospects for stability in the Kivu region are as bleak as ever. After threatening to send troops to the Kivus unless the Kinshasa government took effective steps to disarm Hutu militias, Kagame's warning appears…

Risk Assessment: The last three months have seen a slow tapering off of Conflictual Actions and some encouraging signs of growing stability, namely for the month of October. The threat to the transition posed by the Gatumba…

INTRODUCTION 1.1 The accessibility to safe drinking water and basic sanitation in Sierra Leone, with the participation of international community particularly during the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (IDWSSD) in 1980s, reached 45% and 30%, respectively. However, the eleven…

Mission OCHA à Nzerekore 1-4 Juin 2004 I. Objet du présent rapport de mission en Guinée Forestière La présence des réfugiés, déplacés et retournés guinéens de la Côte d'Ivoire et du Libéria a de plus en plus de conséquences néfastes sur…

Masisi and Rutshuru Territories, North Kivu May 2004 Prepared and Written by: Yuvé GULUMA, Sub-Regional Food Security Adviser, Rwanda/Eastern DRC, SC-UK Technical Support: Dr. Ir WALANGULULU MASAMBA, specialist in plant diseases, Catholic University of Bukavu Field Research Team: Luka DJEDI and Jean de…