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Food Security Outlook Update
August 2023
Food assistance needs are likely to increase during the upcoming lean season
  • Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Stressed (IPC Phase 2) outcomes are present in areas of southern and central Mozambique that experienced a poor harvest following prolonged dry spells or storms/cyclones in February and March 2023, as household food stocks deplete, along with limited access to income. However, most households across Mozambique are facing Minimal (IPC Phase 1) acute food insecurity outcomes supported by adequate access to their food and non-food needs. In conflict-affected areas of Cabo Delgado province, the gradual return of IDPs and increased access for governmental and humanitarian organizations to distribute humanitarian food assistance is driving Stressed! (IPC Phase 2!) outcomes.
  • In mid-August, FEWS NET carried out a rapid qualitative food security assessment in Mecufi, Metuge, and Ancuabe districts in Cabo Delgado province. Findings indicate that most households have maize food reserves that will last for one to three months. The main sources of food are own production along with humanitarian food assistance. Households with access to low-lying areas are also growing cassava, vegetables, and horticultural crops, while a few households are growing second-season maize that is likely to be harvested in late September or early October. Most poor households reported eating one to two meals a day of vegetables, cereals, and tubers and are largely meeting their minimum food needs.
  • In July, the Food Security Cluster (FSC) partners assisted 461,290 people nationally, around 42 percent of the targeted beneficiaries, with humanitarian food assistance (HFA) during the July/August distribution cycle. The FSC partners plan to assist the remainder of the targeted beneficiaries in August. Around 80 percent of the HFA was distributed as in-kind food, with the remainder as cash-based transfers (CBT). In Cyclone Freddy affected areas, around 17,760 people in four districts of Zambézia and Sofala provinces received assistance, while nearly 5,410 people received support in recovering or strengthening their basic livelihoods in Namacurra and Maganja da Costa. The distribution of HFA is expected to continue through 2023. In the next distribution cycle, all beneficiaries in districts that undertook the Vulnerability Based Targeting (VBT) exercise are likely to begin receiving assistance.
  • Climate forecasts suggest increasing confidence in a strong El Niño by late 2023. El Niño is typically correlated with below-average rainfall in southern and central Mozambique with average rainfall in the north. Based on historical trends during El Niño years, the onset of the main rainy season between October and December will most likely be delayed with mixed performance, especially in the south. Irregular rainfall will most likely compound the impacts of reduced access to agricultural inputs on planted area, which will in turn affect income-earning among poor households who rely on agricultural labor opportunities. Close monitoring of rainfall totals and distribution will be required to assess the severity of adverse impacts on cropping conditions for the 2023/24 harvest. There is particular concern for areas in the south that already experienced significant crop losses due to dry spells in 2023 and cyclones in 2022 and 2023. Government and donors should prepare now for rising food assistance needs in 2024.
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Forward-looking analysis representing the most likely food security outcomes for the near term (August 2023 - September 2023) and medium term (October 2023 - January 2024) periods.

Mozambique Acute Food Insecurity Classification Shapefile August 2023 (.zip) (ZIP) Mozambique Acute Food Insecurity Classification August 2023 (.geojson) (GeoJSON) Near Term Projection: August 2023 - September 2023 (.png) (PNG) Medium Term Projection: October 2023 - January 2024 (.png) (PNG) Near Term Projection: August 2023 - September 2023 (.kml) (KML) Medium Term Projection: October 2023 - January 2024 (.kml) (KML) Mozambique Acute Food Insecurity Classification (July 2023 - January 2024)

Forward-looking analysis representing the most likely food security outcomes for the near term (July 2023 - September 2023) and medium term (October 2023 - January 2024) periods.

Mozambique Acute Food Insecurity Classification Shapefile July 2023 (.zip) (ZIP) Mozambique Acute Food Insecurity Classification July 2023 (.geojson) (GeoJSON) Near Term Projection: July 2023 - September 2023 (.png) (PNG) Medium Term Projection: October 2023 - January 2024 (.png) (PNG) Near Term Projection: July 2023 - September 2023 (.kml) (KML) Medium Term Projection: October 2023 - January 2024 (.kml) (KML) Mozambique Acute Food Insecurity Classification (June 2023 - January 2024)

Current (June 2023) food security outcomes and forward-looking analysis representing the most likely food security outcomes for the near term (June 2023 - September 2023) and medium term (October 2023 - January 2024) periods.

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