Key Messages
Below-average harvest production in northern Guidimakha, Gorgo and Brakna has led poor households to turn to loans and market purchase for food needs three months earlier than normal. Seeing as their seasonal incomes are also below-average, between April and July, households in these areas risk experiencing consumption deficits and will face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) acute food insecurity.
In most other agropastoral, rainfed cropping and Senegal River Valley areas, meager post-harvest activities have resulted in below-average seasonal revenues for poor households at a time when they are heavily reliant on market purchase to meet food needs. Without assistance programs, they would not be able to meet their livelihoods protection needs, making them Stressed (IPC Phase 2!) until July.
Seasonal forecasts for a normal rainy season allow for expectations for a typical cropping season and regeneration of pastoral conditions, as well as seasonally normal incomes, leading to generally Minimal (IPC Phase 1) acute food insecurity between July and September. However, some southern rainfed cultivation areas will still remain Stressed (IPC Phase 2) until the harvests beginning in September.
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