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COMESA Regional Food Security Section
Food Security is a fundamental part of the COMESA region, in this section of the FAMIS website, you will find good and reliable information about the food security information in the COMESA region. Here we bring you, production data, consumption data, food security alerts and updates in the COMESA region. Food security maps mapping out the food security situation in the COMESA region. Most of this information is collected directly from the Agricultural Ministries of all the COMESA states.

News Stories

Kenya: Nation Groans Under Glut | Catherine Riungu | Mar-09-2010

Nairobi — Kenya stands to pay heavily for the current wastage of milk, following a massive production glut.Co-operatives Development Minister Joseph Nyaga last week blamed imports for the problem.

Ethiopia: Food security projected to deteriorate further in 2010 | FEWSNET | Mar-04-2010

Poor performance of the June to September rains has resulted in below‐normal harvests in meher‐cropping areas as well as poor water availability and pasture regeneration in northern pastoral zones.

RDC: Les forêts du Nord-Kivu, refuge des déplacés | Marceline | Feb-04-2010

NAIROBI, 29 janvier 2010 (IRIN) - L’insécurité a fait des milliers de déplacés au sein de la population civile dans l’est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), forçant nombre d’entre eux à se cacher en forêt ou à chercher refuge chez d’autres familles, selon le Haut Commissariat des Nations Unies pour les réfugiés (HCR).

RDC-CONGO: Partage des ressources halieutiques et déplacement de populations | Marceline | Feb-04-2010

KINSHASA, 3 février 2010 (IRIN) - Les communautés ethniques rivales du nord-ouest de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC) se sont affrontées à plusieurs reprises au fil des années. Selon des observateurs, leurs plus récents affrontements concernent le partage des ressources halieutiques.

Southern Sudan: Food Security Alert January 22, 2010 | Nawal | Feb-03-2010

The food insecure population in south Sudan has significantly increased since the beginning of the year following escalated inter‐tribal/clan and cattleraiding conflicts during 2009, combined with poor rainfall and crop performance across the country

Kenya Food Security Alert: Widening maize supply deficit to accentuate food insecurity | Mrs Priscilla | Feb-03-2010

Expectations of a significantly below harvest have raised serious concerns for food security in the northwestern and southern pastoral and southeastern marginal agricultural areas of Kenya.

WFP's three-year Swaziland Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation, aims to help 201,000 people ann | Bongani | Feb-03-2010

Swaziland's annual maize harvest in 2009 was estimated at 70,000 tons, which was slightly more than the previous year. However, Swaziland still needs to import around 90,000 tons during the current consumption year (April 2009 - March 2010) to fill the national cereal gap...

SUDAN: Drought, insecurity hurting food production in South | Nawal | Feb-03-2010

JUBA, 11 January 2010 (IRIN) - Several states in Southern Sudan are facing food shortages due to widespread drought and conflict, officials said.

"The yield of the [sorghum] crop was generally poorer in some locations in 2009 than in 2008," John Chuol, a member of a government team that conducted an assessment of the food situation in five states, said.

More than 80 percent of cereal production in the region is grown via traditional methods, and farmers rely heavily on the weather. Sorghum, according to Chuol, is the most widely cultivated cereal.

DRC-CONGO: Of fish wars and displacement | Ethiopia | Feb-03-2010

KINSHASA, 2 February 2010 (IRIN) - Rival ethnic communities in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo have clashed many times over the years, but most recently over fish, observers say.

Ethiopia: Below-normal kiremt rains could further exacerbate food insecurity | FEWSNET | Nov-03-2009
Following successive seasons of below?average rains, an estimated 6.2 million people remain acutely food insecure, mainly in the eastern half of the country, and require emergency food assistance.

Kenya: National maize harvest deficit likely to increase food insecurity in 2010 | FEWSNET | Nov-03-2009
The long?rains maize harvest in Kenya�s Rift Valley highlands, the �grain basket,� is expected to take place from October through January. This harvest is significant because it represents more than 50 percent of annual national production, and it typically signals the end of the main hunger season, which has been particularly severe this year.