Crop Prospects and Food Situation No. 2, June 2017
Quarterly Global Report
08/06/2017
Keywords: Anticipatory action, Asia, Central America, Crops, Early Warning, Eastern Africa, Emergency response, Food chain threats, Latin America, Livestock, Natural hazards, Preparedness, Protracted crises and conflicts, Resilience concept, South America, South Asia, Southern Africa, Western Africa, , ,
FAO estimates that 37 countries are in need of external assistance for food. Civil conflict continues to be a main driver of severe food insecurity, triggering famine in South Sudan and putting populations at high risk of localized famine in Yemen and northern Nigeria. Weather shocks, notably droughts, have also impinged on food availability and access, and have in particular compounded the fragile situation in Somalia where famine conditions continue to be a threat.
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