3/31/2023 0 Comments Fews net somalia![]() The drought response needs to be increased immediately to prevent the already severe food emergency, including a Risk of Famine in Somalia, from deteriorating into an even more dire situation.Southern Madagascar recently experienced a severe food security crisis, made significantly worse by well below average rainfall from July 2019 to June 2021. However, current appeals to respond to the drought remain well underfunded. A rapid scaling up of actions is needed now to save lives and avert starvation and death. However, irrespective of rainfall between October and December, conditions will not recover quick enough to see food security improvements before mid-2023. The predicted below-average OND season would drive a deterioration of an already dire food security and malnutrition situation in 2023. In addition to the drought, food insecurity and acute malnutrition have been exacerbated by other concurrent shocks, including conflict/insecurity, rising global fuel, food, and fertilizer prices due to the Ukraine crisis, macroeconomic challenges, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya have also recorded a significantly higher number of severely malnourished children admitted for treatment in the first quarter of 2022 compared to past years. Both Emergency and Catastrophe are associated with increased mortality. In Kenya and Somalia, nearly 2.5 million people face Emergency (IPC Phase 4). In Somalia, April 2022 analyses found a Risk of Famine (IPC Phase 5) and indicated that over 80,000 people were experiencing extreme hunger, indicative of Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). ![]() The Food Security and Nutrition Working Group (FSNWG) estimates that 16.7 million people currently face high acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3+) and projects figures to increase to 20 million people by September. In cropping areas, harvests will again be well below average, causing a prolonged dependency on markets, where households will have limited food access due to high food prices. Rangeland conditions will deteriorate faster than usual, driving additional, widespread livestock deaths, as well as population displacements. Over a million people have been displaced in Somalia and southern Ethiopia.Įxisting water deficits have been exacerbated by very high air temperatures, which are forecast to continue into the June-September dry season. In the worst-affected areas of Somalia, FEWS NET/FSNAU estimate that 1-out-of-3 livestock have perished since mid-2021. An estimated 3.6 million livestock have died in Kenya (1.5 million) and Ethiopia (2.1 million). The 2022 March-May rainy season appears likely to be the driest on record, devastating livelihoods and driving sharp increases in food, water, and nutrition insecurity. The latest long-lead seasonal forecasts, supported by a broad consensus from meteorological experts, indicate that there is now a concrete risk that the October-December (OND) rainy season could also fail.1,2 Should these forecasts materialize, the already severe humanitarian emergency in the region would further deepen. Four consecutive rainy seasons have failed, a climatic event not seen in at least 40 years. The following statement is a joint alert by meteorological agencies and humanitarian partners.ģ0 May, 2022 Nairobi, Kenya: The current extreme, widespread, and persistent multi-season drought affecting Somalia, the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya, and Ethiopia’s Belg-receiving and eastern and southern pastoral areas, is unprecedented.
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