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Food Security Country Brief

Year of publication 2010

Author Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Document

Category Other document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) In recent months cereal prices have continued to follow a gradually decreasing trend and maize prices in the capital city were lower than prices on the international market. Pockets of food insecurity exist due to different localized shocks such as poor rains in the southeast or floods in Amhara region, while tensions with rebel groups continue. Food security is improving throughout the country, and the number of people in need of food assistance during the last months of the year decr eased to 2.3 million. The government with the help of international agencies is continuing to assist the population while investing in agricultural production to increase food security.

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