Assessments

Assessment Mission: 2 - 13 March 2003 François Piguet, Field Officer, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia 1 Introduction and background Three years of low rainfalls and poor harvests in Hararghe have spurred the UN-EUE to organize a follow-up assessment mission…

Humanitarian Community to Gear Up for Second Half of the Year The current re-assessment of food needs for 2003 in selected areas of the country is likely to bring an increase in beneficiary numbers. The DPPC and NGOs are currently…

Highlights Food insecurity is increasing in Chicualacuala and other parts of Gaza, where people are surviving mainly on wild foods. The livestock ban, issued because of foot and mouth disease, is further undermining food security by reducing household income normally…

REGIONAL POLICY DIALOGUE AIMS TO IMPROVE FOOD SECURITY The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) convened a Regional Dialogue on Agricultural Recovery, Food Security and Trade Policies in Southern Africa from 26-27 March 2003…

OVERVIEW This month, the Nutrition Update once again highlights the continuing high level of vulnerability among the displaced and urban poor in Mogadishu, where continuing insecurity restricts comprehensive monitoring. In Gedo, with the acute food insecurity crisis declining,…

Assessment Mission: 1 - 16 March 2003 By Abraham Sewonet, Field Officer, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia 1. Introduction and background A combination of population pressure, small land holdings, land degradation, erratic rainfall and a number of negative economic factors such as…

Summary Unseasonably dry conditions occurred over southern and eastern Rwanda in February and early March 2003. These are the same areas previously reported to have pockets of food insecurity. Consequently, WFP-VAM, FEWS NET Rwanda and government partners in the field conducted…

Summary Food security monitoring assessments conducted between January and March concur with food security projections made by various food aid agencies in December 2002. Apart from the recent arrival of returnees from Ethiopia, the food security situation is not significantly different…

Summary Rainfall improves in Southern Zambia, but is too late to save the crop which was permanently wilted. Input support programs halted as the agricultural season progresses towards harvest. National crop forecast likely to come too late unless funded…

On December 7, 2002, the Government of Ethiopia and the United Nations launched a joint appeal for over 1.44 million metric tons of food aid to feed 11.3 million people in 2003 due to rainfall shocks that worsened previously…