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No Thumbnail AvailableTechnical reportFAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO AFGHANISTAN - 2 July 1998 1998
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The Afghan economy has been disrupted by near-continuous civil strife since 1979. The consequent displacement of large numbers of people and massive unemployment have led to extremely low income levels and limited access to food, especially in urban areas. Agriculture has also suffered - from damaged irrigation structures, land mines and from the migration of farmers out of insecure areas. Food production has been affected, and the country has moved from near self-sufficiency in the mid-1970s to heavy dependency on imports (from the USSR in the 1980s and from Pakistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1990s). Most of the imported food is consumed in the urban areas. Although Afghanistan has been only around 70 percent self-sufficient in cereals during most of this decade, there is evidence of rising production in the last two or three years, as a result of greater security in some areas. Following the 1997 FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission which estimated last ye ar’s national cereal production to be the highest for several years, an FAO/WFP Mission, supported by UNDP, was fielded to Afghanistan from 4-27 May 1998, to estimate the 1998 cereal harvest and cereal import requirements for the 1998/99 marketing year, to ascertain whether the rising trend towards self-sufficiency observed in 1997 was continuing and to assess the regional food situation within the country. Particular attention was to be focused on. -
No Thumbnail AvailableTechnical reportFAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO SUDAN - 23 December 1998 1998
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In May 1998, FAO issued a Special Alert on the grave food supply difficulties in southern Sudan, particularly in Bahr el Ghazal, as a result of a succession of drought-reduced food production coupled with an intensification of the long-running civil strife. Later in the year heavy rains and flooding displaced a large number of households and damaged crops in the central and eastern parts of the country. These events prompted the fielding of an FAO Mission to southern Sudan in October and a joint FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to all the production areas in northern Sudan from 15 November to 3 December 1998 to estimate cereal production and food supply and assess food aid needs from the current harvest of mainly sorghum and millet and to make an early forecast of wheat production in the first quarter of 1999. Based on these estimates of production and carryover stocks, the Mission assessed the 1998/99 cereal status including export potential, import requirements a nd food aid needs. -
No Thumbnail AvailableTechnical reportFAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO MOZAMBIQUE - 31 May 2000 2000
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Following the worst floods in 40 years which caused extensive damage to housing, infrastructure and agriculture in southern areas, an FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission to all the production areas in the country was fielded as soon as water receded, from 17 to 29 April 2000. The Mission assessed crop and livestock losses, estimated the main 1999/2000 production of foodcrops and made an early forecast of the second season. Based on these estimates the Mission assessed the 2000/01 cer eal status, including export potential, import requirements and food aid needs. Observers from the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) joined the Mission. Staff from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the National Institute of Management of Disasters (INGC) assisted the Mission on its field visits.
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