Food supply situation and crop prospects in Sub-Saharan Africa - January 1996
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This is the first issue in 1996 of a series of reports prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation, cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The report is designed to provide the latest analysis and information on the food situation in these countries to governments, international organizations and other institutions engaged in relief operations. Part I draws attention to the mixed harvest resul ts in eastern Africa, where large scale emergency food aid distributions will be required by millions of affected people throughout 1996. The report focuses on devastating consequences of civil strife for Burundi and Rwanda. It describes the early prospects for the 1995/96 crops in southern Africa where 1994/95 harvests were reduced by drought. Details of 1995 harvest estimates in the Sahel also feature in Part I. Attention is drawn to donor assistance needed for the internal movement of localiz ed surpluses in several countries. The report contains FAO's latest estimates of the cereal import and food aid requirements, as well as pledges and deliveries in 1994/95 of all the countries of sub-Saharan Africa. Estimates of cereal import and food aid needs are provided for 1995/96 as well as an evaluation of food aid trends in sub-Saharan Africa over the last ten years. Part II contains an assessment of crop prospects and the food supply situation by sub-region, giving the latest estima tes of cereal imports and food aid requirements of all four sub-regions of sub-Saharan Africa.