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Zimbabwe monthly food security update |
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Famine Early Warning Systems Network |
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PDF |
| Published |
Harare: FEWS NET |
| Year |
2003-05-15 |
| Pages |
6 |
| Abstract |
Pre-famine conditions continue to tighten their grip on Zimbabwe, where people in two-thirds of the country will continue to be food insecure in 2003 and one-third of the adults are infected with the AIDS virus, a potentially lethal combination whose consequences stretch far beyond the current food emergency. Maize imports lag behind consumption requirements and supplies on rural markets are erratic, inadequate and expensive. Annual inflation as of January reached 208 percent as food staples and other necessities are increasingly scarce or out of reach of poor consumers. Urban Zimbabweans face rising unemployment and/or wage freezes. Rural Zimbabweans are engaging in extreme income-generating activities to cope. Looking ahead, the 2002/03 grain harvest could fall as much as 20 percent below last year's low level and 77 percent below the recent 5-year average, leaving a million-ton deficit during a period of economic deterioration.
www.fews.net/zimbabwe |
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fewsnet20030224.pdf (132 Kb) |
| Country |
Zimbabwe |
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