| Sub-Region/Country | Marketing year | 1997 Cereal Production 1/ | Position for 1997/98 | ||||||||
| .Total. | As % of average of previous 5 years | Cereal Impor requirements 2/ | Anticipated commercial imports | Food aid requirements | Cereal imports position | ||||||
| Total | of which exceptional | Commercial imports already made or contracted | Food aid | ||||||||
| Pledges | of which received so far | Uncov. Food aid requirements | |||||||||
| Eastern Africa | 6 694 | 96 | 1 957 | 1 799 | 158 | - | 1 | 59 | 15 | 99 | |
| Kenya | Oct./Sept. | 3 252 | 108 | 859 | 809 | 50 | - | - | 15 | - | 35 |
| Somalia | Sept./Aug. | 336 | 125 | 247 | 215 | 32 | - | - | 14 | 7 | 18 |
| Tanzania | June/May | 3 106 | 84 | 851 | 775 | 76 | - | 1 | 30 | 8 | 46 |
| Southern Africa | 22 100 | 116 | 3 707 | 3 055 | 652 | 9 | 334 | 493 | 247 | 130 | |
| Angola | April/March | 431 | 120 | 531 | 279 | 252 | - | - | 216 | 161 | 36 |
| Botswana | April/March | 28 | 68 | 269 | 269 | - | - | 17 | - | - | - |
| Lesotho | April/March | 109 | 64 | 260 | 165 | 95 | - | 10 | 10 | 10 | 85 |
| Madagascar | April/March | 1 866 | 101 | 168 | 125 | 43 | - | 12 | 35 | 14 | 8 |
| Malawi | April/March | 1 643 | 109 | 345 | 195 | 150 | - | - | 52 | 3 | - |
| Mozambique | April/March | 1 469 | 176 | 214 | 102 | 112 | 9 | 63 | 163 | 54 | |
| Namibia | May/April | 173 | 234 | 83 | 83 | - | - | - | 1 | - | |
| South Africa | May/April | 12 454 | 115 | 1 402 | 1 402 | - | - | 177 | - | - | - |
| Swaziland | May/April | 82 | 91 | 48 | 48 | - | - | 5 | - | - | - |
| Zambia | May/April | 1 120 | 94 | 322 | 322 | - | - | 50 | 9 | 6 | |
| Zimbabwe | April/March | 2 725 | 131 | 65 | 65 | - | - | - | 8 | - | |
| Central Africa | 1 161 | 109 | 383 | 381 | 2 | - | 6 | 10 | 2 | ||
| Cameroon | July/June | 1 135 | 109 | 270 | 270 | - | - | 6 | 2 | 2 | |
| Congo, Rep. | July/June | 26 | 96 | 113 | 111 | 2 | - | - | 8 | - | |
| TOTAL | 29 955 | 111 | 6 047 | 5 235 | 812 | 9 | 341 | 562 | 264 | 229 | |
