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Our monthly Food Security Monitor is one way AGRA makes data available to key stakeholders to underpin evidencebased decision-making. Highlights from April 2024 Food Security Monitor are summarised below:
Food Security Updates
In Southern Africa, despite the eminent food crisis expected in the ensuing months, particularly in Zambia, Malawi,
and Zimbabwe, due to the impact of the prolonged El Niño driven drought, food supply is improving, and maize
prices have been observed to have dropped compared to the previous month due to ongoing harvests, albeit
below-average. Nonetheless, food insecurity concerns persist in typical deficit production areas of southern
Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Madagascar, eastern and northern DRC driven by the El Niño-induced drought,
macroeconomic shocks, and in the DRC and northern Mozambique by conflict. Preliminary estimates show a regional
deficit of about 5 million Mt of maize grain, with Zambia and Malawi needing about 1.6 million Mt. In Zimbabwe,
estimates show that the harvest from the 2023-24 season may decline by 72% from last year due to the worst drought
experienced in four decades as a result of the El Nino conditions.
In Eastern Africa, Sudan, South Sudan, and Ethiopia remain the high food insecure countries in the region driven by
deteriorating macro-economic conditions, high incidences of conflicts that are disrupting livelihoods, trade, and food
assistance delivery, and a high burden of returnees from Sudan in the case of South Sudan. The Food Security and
Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) estimate 79,000 people to be at risk of Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) conditions in
South Sudan.
In West Africa, high food insecurity, Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes prevail across the
region driven by poor macroeconomic conditions, conflicts and insecurity, early onset of the lean season with its
attendant high food prices.
At the Global level, both the FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) and the International Grain Council’s (IGC) Grain and Oil Index
(GOI) show a minor uptick in grain prices in April over March supported by a marginal increase in cereal prices
counterbalanced by stability in wheat prices driven by unfavourable production prospects among major producers
and strong competition among major exporters.
Source link : https://reliefweb.int/report/world/food-security-monitor-april-2024
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Publish date : 2024-05-14 07:00:00
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