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MAP: Djibouti food security alert
24 Apr 2008
Source: FEWSNET
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Poor pastures, high prices cause extreme food insecurity in pastoral areas
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Poor pastures, high prices cause extreme food insecurity in pastoral areas
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Food access is severely limited for pastoralists throughout Djibouti due to successive poor rainy seasons; a late start to the current March‐May rains, further deteriorating already poor pasture and livestock body conditions; and high and increasing staple food prices. Pastoral households rely on livestock sales for income to purchase food, and deteriorating terms of trade have caused many pastoral households to become extremely food insecure. Around 80,000 people in pastoral areas require food aid. In addition, ongoing rapid food security assessments in some pastoral areas have identified a large number of screened children as acutely malnourished. If the rainy season does not begin by late April, food security for pastoralists will deteriorate further, increasing food insecurity through at least the end of the year.

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