Southern Africa - Complex Food Security Crisis
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Regional Team: SWAN
Southern, West and Northern Africa
Disaster Declared:
Brief Description: USAID's Bureau for Democracy,
Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) has been
monitoring the complex food security crisis in Southern Africa
since December 2001. The current crisis has resulted from
two consecutive years of adverse climate conditions affecting
production, mismanagement of grain reserves in several countries,
and questionable government policies, especially in Zimbabwe.
According to the United Nations' World Food Program and Food
and Agriculture Organization, more than 12.7 million people
in Southern Africa will require emergency food assistance
by March 2003. Since 1991, the USG has provided nearly $705.1
million in humanitarian assistance to countries in Southern
Africa in response to drought- and food security-related emergencies,
including the drought that severely impacted the region in
1992-1993.
FY2004
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