From late 2010 to mid 2012, drought, spiraling food prices, conflict, and difficult humanitarian access caused an extended period of famine and severe food insecurity in southern and central Somalia. This FEWS NET/FSNAU-sponsored study, the first evidence-based estimation of the death toll, suggests that some 258,000 lives were lost.
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Burkina Faso: Stress au nord entre juillet et septembre
Central African Republic: La situation de sécurité alimentaire est en phase de crise en RCA
Tchad: Les prix des céréales restent stables
Liberia: Minimal food insecurity expected to continue through the lean season
Mali: Perspective de Avril a Septembre
Mauritanie: Perspective de Avril a Septembre
Niger: Hausse sans précédent des prix des céréales
Nigeria: Crisis food insecurity in the northeast
Senegal: Minimal food insecurity expected through September
Sierra Leone: Minimal food insecurity to continue through September
Burundi: Staple food prices remain atypically high throughout the country
Djibouti: Améliorations limitées le debut de soudure
Ethiope: Ethiopia Outlook, April to September 2013
Kenya: Food security improves in eastern areas
Rwanda: Stressed food insecurity outcomes observed
Somalia: Somalia Outlook, April to September 2013
South Sudan: Crisis food security outcomes increase
Sudan: Emergency food insecurity outcomes likely
Tanzania: Despite slight decreases, food prices remain well above the five-year average
Uganda: First season rains start favorably
Lesotho: New harvests, although reduced, bring some relief to food insecure poor households
Malawi: Late season dry spells to reduce crop yields
Mozambique: Food security is expected to remain stable
Zambia: Average maize production expected
Zimbabwe: Green consumption to improve food security
El Salvador: Minimal acute food insecurity through September, even with the lean season underway
Guatemala: Mejora en lluvias reduce déficits
Honduras: Acute food insecurity is likely to remain Minimal even with the lean season underway
Nicaragua: With the lean season underway, acute food insecurity will remain Minimal
Afghanistan: Afghanistan Outlook, April to September 2013
Tajikistan: Regular spring rainfall has improved harvest prospects.
Yemen: Below-average rains to date in most cropping areas in the West