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BulletinFood Security and Humanitarian Implications in West Africa and the Sahel. N°49 - September 2013 2013
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The food situation in Northern Mali remains precarious due to the effects of the conflict on the liveli-hoods of households, high cereal prices, reduced purchasing power of households and the late imple-mentation of certain food and non-food assistance. Nearly half the population has resorted to emer-gency or crisis coping strategies. Provisional estimations of the harvest indicate that the strength and good distribution of rains during August and September mitigated the effects of the late arri val of rains in the majority of agricultural zones in the Sahel. However, in certain zones, rains must continue through October to expect satisfac-tory yields. Overall, an average year is expected in the region. In terms of the presence of pasture and the size of livestock, the pastoral situation also corresponds to an average year, notwithstanding local deficits of pasture observed in Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Chad. -
BulletinFood Security and Humanitarian Implications in West Africa and the Sahel. N°77 - September 2016 2016
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Normal to above normal harvest and pasture production expected for the 2016/2017 cropping season. Spread of the Rift Valley fever in the region of Tahoua in Niger. The food security situation is overall satisfactory except in conflict zones such as in the Lake Chad Basin and the northern Mali. -
BulletinFood Security and Humanitarian Implications in West Africa and the Sahel. N°58 - July/August 2014 2014
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The areas experiencing a late start of agropastoral campaign, benefitted from a resumption of rainfall since the end of July. However, the Atlantic coast from (i) southern Mauritania to Guinée-Bissau, (ii) northeastern Niger and (iii) northern Ghana, Nigeria and Togo recorded rainfall deficits affecting negatively the agricultural activities. The late start of the rainy season in certain areas (Chad, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal) has extended the agricultural lean season, forcing vulnerable hou seholds to adopt irreversible coping mechanisms if they don’t have access to food assistance. Pastoralists households are already facing the effects of a prolonged lean season. Livestock presents a poor body condition and in some countries of the region loss of animals have been reported (Mali, Niger and Senegal). During the lean season, localized prices increases for millet and sorghum have been observed in Burkina and in Senegal and for millet in Mali. In the eastern commercial basin, price in creases are found in the insecure zones of northern Nigeria as well as in the displaced population sites in southern Chad and in Niger. However, food products availability remains satisfactory and allows a general stability of monthly prices of coarse grains in most of West African markets. In the three West African commercial basins, the commercial flows of agricultural products are in seasonal decrease between June and July 2014 for all cereals, except for millet. Generally, the level of suppl y in local markets remains satisfying in the sub-region, except in conflict-affected areas of northern Mali, of northeastern Nigeria, of C.A.R. and in the neighboring areas. The cross-border trade of countries affected by Ebola in the western commercial basin seems to be affected, as well as trade within the affected countries following quarantine measures taken in some districts. These disturbances have negative socio-economic consequences that might affect the food security of households. As f or now, markets in Nigeria have yet to seem affected by the Ebola outbreak, but the situation is being closely monitored.
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