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From mid-2016 to mid-2017, a severe drought occurred across the Horn of Africa. Rainfall was erratic and significantly below-average during both the October-December 2016 and the March-May 2017 seasons. This drought greatly limited crop production, pasture growth and water availability. In Somalia and Ethiopia in particular, food security impacts are expected to be severe. This report presents a series of maps which illustrate the extent and the severity of the drought, and its impacts on crop and rangeland conditions and on food prices.
FEWS NET has also created an ESRI story map version of this report available here.
Occasionally, FEWS NET will publish a Special Report that serves to provide an in-depth analysis of food security issues of particular concern that are not covered in FEWS NET’s regular monthly reporting. These reports may focus on a specific factor driving food security outcomes anywhere in the world during a specified period of time. For example, in 2019, FEWS NET produced a Special Report on widespread flooding in East Africa and its associated impacts on regional food security.