Key Messages
The pastoral lean season is at its peak with poor households in Stressed (IPC Phase 2) acute food insecurity. This will persist in Zinder and Diffa until September 2014 due to significantly high cereal prices. However, the expectedly favorable rainy season should lead to the regeneration of pastoral resources and allow the majority of pastoral zones to reach Minimal (IPC Phase 1) levels between July and September.
In agriculture and agropastoral zones, the current Stressed (IPC Phase 2) level of acute food insecurity will evolve to Crisis (IPC Phase 3) for a small number of localized households in some zones between July and August 2014. This situation will be most significant in agricultural and agropastoral Ouallam, but also present in some households in agricultural and agropastoral Tahoua, Mainé Soroa and Diffa.
By May 10, 2014, 21 percent of agricultural villages had planted their millet. Their plantings indicate their early start to the season by up to one or two months. The early start of the season, however, will not occur for some households in certain areas who find it difficult to find millet seeds for planting.
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