Assessments

Field Assessment Mission: 7 - 10 April & 15 - 17 April 2003 By Francois Piguet, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia Introduction and background The mission's major objectives were to assess the humanitarian situation in Arsi, following three years of rainfall deficit. The assessment…

FOOD SECURITY PROSPECTS BETTER THAN LAST YEAR Cereal production estimates just released by SADC and FAO point to an improvement in the food security situation in several countries in comparison to the same time last year. Zimbabwe,…

More food aid needed for some sub-Saharan African countries But in southern Africa, overall harvest prospects have improved since last year Rome , 7 May 2003 -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a report released today called for more…

Preface This emergency food security assessment is regionally coordinated by the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Food, Agriculture, and Natural resources (FANR) Vulnerability Assessment Committee (VAC), in collaboration with international partners (WFP, FEWS NET, SC (UK), FAO, UNICEF and IFRC. The Zimbabwe…

Published in Monograph No 83, April 2003João Gomes and Imogen Parsons PREFACE Demilitarisation of conflict and society is crucial to building sustainable peace in countries emerging from the scourge of civil war. As longstanding conflicts come to an…

Participants: FEWS Net Abdi Musa Mohamed (Consultant) Sidow Ibrahim Addou (FEWS-Net Representative) Alexandra King (Consultant) FSAU Abdi Hussein Roble (Field Monitor Belet Weyn) Ahmed Nur Hussein (Field Monitor Hargeisa) Mohamed Salad Mohamud (Field Monitor Galkayo) Abdirahman Mohamed Yusuf (Field Monitor Bosasso) Save the Children…

OVERVIEW Within camps for displaced persons in Kismayo town, an increase in levels of malnutrition between November 2002 and March 2003 can partly be explained by reduced access to food of adequate quality and quantity due to…

FSAU REPORTS AND ACTIVITIES ** FSAU has contracted a software firm to assist in the construction of a data dictionary - a description showing metadata and entity relationships of all technical data in the Unit (including nutrition data). Work has…

There is a need of an entirely new and bold approach to address the intertwined crises of devastating illness and drought affecting agriculture' - Guruve Summary The National NGO Food Security (FOSENET) involves 24 non-governmental organisations that collectively cover ALL districts…

Assessment Mission: 9 - 22 February 2003 By Ahmed Ali Egeh and Dechassa Lemessa, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia 1 Introduction and background Tigray region suffered from prolonged civil war and the Ethio-Eritrea border conflict being the most recent conflict that inflicted heavy…