FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops and Shortages 06/02 - CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (3 June)

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC (3 June)

Precipitation has been generally widespread and abundant since March, permitting land preparation and first plantings.

Following an above-average harvest in 2001, the food supply situation is satisfactory. With an improvement of the overall security situation, a nationwide curfew was lifted in mid-May nearly one year after its imposition. In late May, WFP began an emergency operation to provide food to some 6 000 IDPs displaced by armed conflict in the northern part of the country.