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Food Security Country Brief

Year of publication 2010

Author Agriculture and Economic Development Analysis Division

Product type Document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Staple food prices have registered a sharp decrease in recent months in local markets mainly thanks to good harvests. The political situation is not critical and the country is slowly recovering from the floods which caused extensive losses and damages between July and September. Food security conditions are estimated to be generally good throughout the country, however IFPRI Hunger Index depicts an alarming hunger problem. The government is procuring grain through the National Securit y Reserve Management Company to build up stocks.

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