Assessments

Harvesting of the 2001 coarse grains, mainly maize, is well advanced. Prospects deteriorated with excessive rains in February and March over most parts of the country, which negatively affected yields and resulted in localized floods, particularly along the Zambezi and…

The output of the 2001 A season crops is estimated to be satisfactory. A locally organized FAO/WFP/UNICEF assessment estimated food production at 85 000 tonnes of cereals, 68 000 tonnes of pulses, 483 000 tonnes of roots and tubers…

Latest preliminary estimate of the recently harvested 2001 maize crop has been revised downwards to 2.047 million tonnes, a decline of 18 percent from the bumper crop of last year but still at the average level of the past…

Preliminary indications of the recently harvested 2001 A season crop point to a food output around or slightly lower than the good level of last year. Despite a delay to the start of the rainy season, precipitation was abundant…

An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Zimbabwe from 25 April to 11 May 2001 to estimate the production of the main season cereal and pulse crops, forecast the 2001/02 winter season production and assess food import…

MEDIA ADVISORY Rome, 1 June 2001 -- An FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Zimbabwe from 25 April to 11 May 2001 to estimate the production of the main season cereal and pulse crops, forecast the 2001/02 winter…

Jane Bean Humanitarian Support Personnel Public Health Advisor Oxfam GB Acknowledgement I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Oxfam GB staff from the regional office in Nairobi for helping to make my stay such an enjoyable and…

Introduction Mozambique entered 2001 under the threat of floods in the north-western province of Tete because heavy rain in Zambia had forced the authorities to release water from the Kariba dam. The Zambezi River burst its banks…

OVERVIEW This month, the 'Nutrition Update' focuses on an analysis of some interesting nutrition surveys in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. On a positive note, the situation in Somalia appears to be somewhat better than in neighbouring countries.…

Mission Highlights The food supply outlook is highly precarious in several parts of the country following two consecutive years of reduced cereal harvests and depletion of stocks. Sorghum prices have almost doubled while millet prices have increased…