Évaluations

A recent FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to southern Sudan estimated a deficit in cereal production, particularly in North Bahr el Ghazal, Bahr el Jebel, East Equatoria, Jonglei and Juba. However, some surplus production was noted in…

Despite favorable rains in September and October in some regions of the country, mainly Debub and Gash Barka, prospects for 2000 main season cereal and pulse crops for harvest from November are bleak, due mainly to the displacement of…

The United Nations is planning to send a needs assessment mission to the Sudan in advance of the upcoming parliamentary elections on 11 December, a UN spokesman announced today in New York. The spokesman said at a press briefing that…

Harvesting of the 2000 main "long rains" cereal crops is complete in the main growing areas of the Rift Valley. The main rainy season (March-May), which normally accounts for 80 percent of total annual food production, has largely failed…

This report by Wilfried DeBrouwer, Head, JLOC, Maputo; Senior Logistics Advisor, World Food Programme, Rome 10/30/2000 (HPN) - The millennium did not bring much good fortune to Mozambique, one of the poorest countries in the world. During February, two consecutive…

(Mission undertaken from 5 - 15 October 2000) By Dechassa Lemessa, UN Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia Introduction and background North Wello, South Wello and Oromia Zones of Amhara region had an unsatisfactory meher harvest in 1998, a complete failure of the belg and…

Findings and Recommendations Background The Senior Inter-Agency Network on internal displacement undertook a mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea from 16 to 21 October 2000. The mission, led by the UN Special Coordinator on Internal Displacement, was composed of representatives of FAO,…

Report No.2 * Ms. Catherine Bertini, UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on the drought in the Horn of Africa: Findings and recommendations of the mission to Kenya and Ethiopia between 17-23 September 2000 "We are always going to have drought and…

When the heads of 26 United Nations organizations gather in New York for a meeting of the United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) on 27 October, one of the issues they will focus on is…

October to December constitutes an important rainfall season over the Greater Horn of Africa sub-region. This report provides DMCN update of the climate outlook for the September to December 2000 rainfall season for the Greater Horn of Africa that…