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Food Security and humanitarian implications in West Africa and the Sahel - FAO/WFP Joint Note, February 2013
Tags: Crisis in the Sahel, Sahel, Western Africa, Central Africa, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cameroon, Gambia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, UN Rome-based food agencies, FAO-WFP report,
Mar 2013
Key points
- Persistent food insecurity due to floods, high rates of malnutrition and high food prices for the poorest households in the Sahel, consequences of the 2011-2012 crisis
- Upward trend of coarse grain prices after post-harvest declines in 2012
- Damages caused by floods occurred in July and October 2012 more severe than initially anticipated in Nigeria
Food Security and humanitarian implications in West Africa and the Sahel - FAO/WFP Joint Note, February 2013