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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Unfavourable outlook for the current season could aggravate already precarious food situation in Somalia, 3 July 1998 1998
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Continuous civil strife since 1988 has seriously disrupted the Somali economy and damaged most of the country's infrastructure. A large proportion of the population has been displaced. The disastrous floods in late 1997 dealt an added blow to the fragile food security situation by causing extensive damage to infrastructure and property and substantial crop and livestock losses. Against this background a team composed of an FAO/GIEWS staff member, an FAO consultant agrometeorologist and an agrono mist from the Food Security Assessment Unit in Nairobi (FSAU), visited southern Somalia from 27 to 30 May 1998 to review the findings of the current season assessment carried out by the FSAU team of national agronomists. Two workshops were held in Beletweyne (Hiraan) and Merka (Lower Shebelle), where field visits were undertaken. The review was also facilitated by information obtained from earlier low flying inspections over agricultural areas by the WFP agronomist and the FAO agrometeorologist. The Northwestern regions (Somaliland) were visited in mid-June by the FSAU agronomist and the findings are included in this report. -
Book (stand-alone)Food supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa - December 1999 1999
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This is the last of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The report is designed to provide the latest analysis and information on the food situation in these countries to governments, international organizations and other institutions engaged in relief operations. Part I focuses on the looming food crisis in S omalia and the deteriorating food supply situation in Burundi. It draws attention to the need for urgent assistance by millions of people in these countries and also in several eastern African countries, where drought this year has seriously affected crop production. It also highlights the grave humanitarian crisis that has intensified in Angola and the continuing need for international food assistance in Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau and Liberia. Part II contains an assessment of crop prosp ects and the food supply situation by sub-region, giving the latest estimates of cereal import and food aid requirements of all four sub-regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Part III presents the latest analysis and information on crop prospects and the food supply situation and outlook in each country. The information on food aid pledges, including triangular transactions and local purchases, and on expected arrivals, is based on data transmitted to GIEWS as of late November 1999 by the followin g donors: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, EC, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States as well as the World Food Programme. For other donors, data are based on field reports from various sources (see Tables 7 and 8). -
Book (stand-alone)Food supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa - December 2000 2000
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This is the last of three annual issues of this report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation and cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The report is designed to provide the latest analysis and information on the food situation in these countries to governments, international organizations and other institutions engaged in relief operations. Part I focuses on the persistent severe food s upply difficulties in eastern Africa, where an estimated 20 million people are affected. It highlights the precarious food situation in parts of the Great Lakes region mainly due to civil strife and insecurity. The report also draws attention to a likely deterioration in food supply prospects for Angola, reflecting growing insecurity at the critical planting period. Part II contains an assessment of crop prospects and the food supply situation by sub-region, giving the latest estimates of c ereal import and food aid requirements of all four sub-regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Part III presents the latest analysis and information on crop prospects and the food supply situation and outlook in each country. The information on food aid pledges, including triangular transactions and local purchases, and on expected arrivals, is based on data transmitted to GIEWS as of early December 2000 by the following donors: Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, EC, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States as well as the World Food Programme. For other donors, data are based on field reports from various sources (see Tables 7 and 8).
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