Source: Famine Early Warning System Network
Country: Senegal
Good rebound in rainfall favors an average to good harvest.
KEY MESSAGES
- The rebound in seasonal rainfall in late July helped jumpstart cropping activities in major peanut and cereal producing areas in the central reaches of the country, as well as in the north. Good planting rates of over 70 percent favor a good harvest assuming that weather forecasts predicting likely continued rainfall into October prove accurate.
- Stable prices and, availability (though limited) of on-farm food stocks are maintaining staple food access. There are no major anomalies in sources of household income, which are generating normal earnings, providing households with average purchasing power.
- Stable staple food prices, normal income-generating activities, and improving incomes among pastoral households will keep household food insecurity at Minimal levels (IPC Phase 1) through December, particularly with the upcoming harvests beginning in October.