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WFP
Emergency Report No. 1 of 2005
World Food
Programme (WFP)
January 07, 2005
www.reliefweb.int
Regional
The
regional Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation PRRO 10310, Assistance
to Populations in Southern Africa Vulnerable to Food Insecurity
and the Impact of AIDS, commenced on 1 January and has to date received
contributions of USD 36.5 million (9.2 percent) against revised
needs of USD 395.1 million for operations from January 2005 to December
2007.
Zimbabwe
- As the lean
season begins, increasing levels of food insecurity are apparent.
Food security is declining in most of the districts, particularly
in those in the traditionally dry Masvingo and Matebeleland provinces
south of the country. A massive price increase of up to 250 percent
in the Masvingo urban market has occurred since the post-harvest
low point. Household food purchases are constrained by the increasing
food prices and lack of income, with a wage well below what is
needed to purchase a day’s cereal requirement for a family of
five.
- In December,
WFP planned to provide about 25,000 tons of food to 1.6 million
vulnerable people in 33 of Zimbabwe's 57 districts through what
is described as a "one-off" distribution.
- WFP plans
to provide about 18,500 tons of commodities under the Zimbabwe
component of the PRRO 10310 Assistance to Populations Vulnerable
to Food Insecurity in high HIV/AIDS Prevalence Areas of Southern
Africa.The food will be distributed under vulnerable group feeding,
including supplementary feeding for malnourished children and
home based care support programmes for HIV and AIDS affected households.
New donations to meet these needs are urgently required.
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