Acute food insecurity continues in conflict prone areas of the northeast
Key Messages
Boko Haram conflict in the northeast continues to lead to increasing population displacements and disruptions in market and trade flows into the region. Typical cultivation activities in the region are also negatively impacted at this, the beginning of the main cultivation season. Poor households in Borno and Yobe States continue to face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) acute food insecurity and Adamawa State is Stressed (IPC Phase 2) through September.
Poor households in Niger State continue to face an early lean season period as they are yet to recover from the below average 2013/14 main harvest. Their relatively high dependency on market purchase is slightly tempered by atypically stable prices compared to previous months and early green harvests, though, this is unable to completely off-set their increased need for purchase, and they will face Stressed (IPC Phase 2) acute food insecurity through September.
The growing season is evolving normally in many areas across the country. The short dry spells in north central areas have limited impacts on crop development, though localized crop replanting is occurring in some affected areas. The early onset of the growing season in many areas across the country, particularly in the south, resulted in good early green harvests, increased wild food and market stock availability, and reduced prices for most staple foods.
