Off-season crop harvests boost food stock levels
KEY MESSAGES
• Most households in Chad are able to meet their food and nonfood needs through their normal livelihood strategies (food stocks from on-farm production, paid labor, and the sales of livestock and animal products). As a result, all livelihood zones are currently classified as facing Minimal/None (IPC Phase 1) food insecurity.
• Good rainfed crop harvests, bolstered by the recent off-season harvests of berbéré (flood-recession sorghum) and/or market garden crops, are boosting current household food stock levels.
In addition, high daily wage rates compared with last year are helping poor households access food normally on local markets.
• Cereal prices are relatively stable or down slightly from February of this year and March 2012. However prices in the Sudanian zone are still high compared with the five-year average. For example, sorghum prices in Sarh and Moundou are above the five-year average by 37 percent and eight percent, respectively.
