Famine Early Warning Systems Network

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• Flooding that has caused heavy property losses in throughout the country could continue, undermining the livelihoods of affected households. Poor flood-stricken households in localized areas will have difficulty properly meeting their food and nonfood needs and, thus, will be facing Stressed (IPC Phase 2) conditions through October 2016. However, these households account for less than 20 percent of the population of any given area.

• The growing season is making average to good progress throughout the country. Farm input assistance provided by the government and its partners and the good rainfall conditions are raising expectations for average to above-average levels of crop production across the country, which will help promote good food availability.

• In general, there are adequate market supplies of staple foodstuffs, except in localized conflict areas in the northern part of the country where there are occasional reports of disturbances. The near-average levels of cereal prices are helping to give households average market access and keep food insecurity at Minimal (IPC Phase 1) levels for most households. 

• Poor households in the Lake Faguibine area and pastoral Gourma area of Gao and Timbuktu, that have smaller incomes from farming and pastoral activities, are fa cing a longer than usual lean season are resorting to atypical coping strategies to meet their food and nonfood needs. Thus, these households will be facing Stressed (IPC Phase 2) food security conditions until the upcoming harvests in October 2016.