Assessments

Summary The overall national food security situation was satisfactory in February. However, pockets of food insecurity are likely to have existed in some districts, particularly where the vuli season rains were poor, and among some households in the districts targeted…

[A delegation including LWR President Kathryn Wolford is in Ethiopia assessing the severe food crisis there. Here is her first report.] Addis Ababa, March 13, 2003 -- "Our delegation from Lutheran World Relief, Africare and Catholic Relief Services had a sobering…

FSAU REPORTS AND ACTIVITIES **Hargeisa Urban Baseline Assessment : An urban baseline assessment of Hargeisa town has taken place during February/March. FSAU Field Monitors based in the region provided technical assistance to the assessment with support from The Food Economy…

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2002/03 RAINFALL PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTION PROSPECTS MIXED Satellite imagery (below) shows that seasonal rains have been notably below normal in many of the same areas affected by last year’s prolonged dry spells. Most of Zimbabwe, southern and…

Major Developments in the Drought Emergency: Emergency and Improved Seed Supply Critical for 2003 Planting Season As discussed in the January Focus on Ethiopia, both emergency seed and improved seed and other agricultural inputs supply is of paramount importance to recover…

Assessment Mission to SNNPR: 10 February 28 February 2003 By Hugo Rämi, UN-Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia 1. Introduction and background Insufficient rains during the Belg and Meher seasons in 2002 severely affected crop production in most of the weredas in the…

Summary While the food security situation is improving in some isolated rural areas of the northern provinces following increased food aid assistance from the humanitarian community and early consumption of the current season's produce, the food security…

SUMMARY This report focuses on the preliminary, still unofficial results of the joint MINAGRI/FAO/WFP/FEWS NET Season 2003 A (September 2002- January 2003) crop assessment, which will be a major determinant of food security for the first half of the year.…

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) issues periodic emergency alerts when population groups are now, or will soon become, extremely food insecure, unable to meet their consumption needs. These groups have already exhausted their strategies for acquiring food…