Agropastoral season and food security conditions are evolving normally
KEY MESSAGES
Cash transfer programs and subsidized grain sales are strengthening food access for very poor and poor households. This is diminishing the effects of this year’s already normal lean season, and is enabling households to maintain Minimal/None (IPC Phase 1) food insecurity.
In general, staple grain prices are near their five-year averages, though prices on northern and northeastern Sahelian markets are as much as 12 to 37 percent above average. However, relatively normal household incomes are offsetting the effects of these higher prices and are enabling households to continue to access food without difficulty.
The growing season is progressing normally and continuing rainfall should enable households to access early crops by the end of August or the beginning of September. Food security conditions for poor households during the post-harvest period (October to December) are expected to be normal.
