Africa Report - No. 3 December 2005

FAO/GIEWS: Africa Report No.3 - December 2005 p.7

Table 3. Cereal import and food aid requirements for sub-Saharan Africa:
countries still in 2004/05 or 2005 marketing year (in '000 tonnes)

Subregion/ Country	Marketing year	2004 Cereal production 1/		2003/04 or 2004 imports			Position for 2004/05 or 2005
Subregion/ Country	Marketing year	Total	As %of average of previous 5 years	Total imports 2/	As % of average of previous 5 years	Food aid	Cereal import require- ment 2/	Antici- pated commer- cial imports	Food aid require- ment
Eastern Africa		13 267	112	1 773	89	1 034	1 831	554	1 277
Burundi	Jan./Dec.	259	104	96	125	56	85	43	42
Comoros	Jan./Dec.	15	100	34	97	-	38	38	-
Djibouti	Jan./Dec.	-	-	82	122	12	71	60	11
Eritrea	Jan./Dec.	85	52	402	122	267	431	91	340
Ethiopia	Jan./Dec.	10 191	114	703	64	538	761	56	705
Rwanda	Jan./Dec.	292	114	224	102	21	205	173	32
Seychelles	Jan./Dec.	-	-	13	100	-	13	13	-
Uganda	Jan./Dec.	2 425	108	219	136	140	227	80	147
Southern Africa		1	100	291	105	-	290	290	-
Mauritius	Jan./Dec.	1	100	291	105	-	290	290	-
Western Africa		21 509	83	7 184	115	247	7 450	7 165	286
Coastal countries		21 509	83	7 184	115	247	7 450	7 165	286
Benin	Jan./Dec.	1 084	113	168	136	13	177	158	19
Côte d'Ivoire	Jan./Dec.	1 214	88	1 135	90	35	1 155	1 108	47
Ghana	Jan./Dec.	1 858	106	774	145	67	755	680	75
Guinea	Jan./Dec.	812	105	361	92	17	375	335	40
Liberia	Jan./Dec.	104	93	224	122	72	225	160	65
Nigeria	Jan./Dec.	15 283	76	4 134	122	11	4 370	4 370	-
Sierra Leone	Jan./Dec.	377	156	277	115	32	288	249	40
Togo	Jan./Dec.	777	107	111	105	-	105	105	-
Central Africa		3 212	105	1 539	160	111	1 529	1 444	85
Cameroon	Jan./Dec.	1 509	111	553	161	30	519	507	12
Cent.Afr.Rep.	Jan./Dec.	193	112	59	146	4	46	44	2
Congo, Dem. Rep of	Jan./Dec.	1 469	98	431	153	69	480	420	60
Congo, Rep. of	Jan./Dec.	8	111	292	158	5	288	285	3
Equat.Guinea	Jan./Dec.	-	-	20	124	-	16	16	-
Gabon	Jan./Dec.	31	97	170	197	-	167	167	-
Sao Tome and Principe	Jan./Dec.	2	100	14	129	3	14	6	8
TOTAL		37 989	93	10 787	114	1 391	11 100	9 453	1 647

Note: totals computed from unrounded data

1/ Including rice in milled equivalent.

2/ Excludes re-exports.

FAO/GIEWS - December 2005

Table 3. Cereal import and food aid requirements for sub-Saharan Africa: countries still in 2004/05 or 2005 marketing year (in '000 tonnes)

Table 3. Cereal import and food aid requirements for sub-Saharan Africa:
countries still in 2004/05 or 2005 marketing year (in '000 tonnes)