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WFP
Emergency Report No. 11 of 2006
World Food
Programme (WFP)
March 17, 2006
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Zimbabwe
(a)
In March 2006, WFP plans to reach 3.6 million beneficiaries with
37,000 tons of food under the Vulnerable Group Feeding programme.
An additional one million beneficiaries will receive 4,000 tons
of food through School Feeding, Home Based Care, Orphan and other
Vulnerable Children, and Mother Child Health programmes. Due to
pipeline constraints, the pulse ration will be reduced from 1kilo/person/month
to 0.5
kilo/person/month.
(b) Figures
released by the Central Statistics Office show that Zimbabwe's annual
rate of inflation for February 2006 surged to 782 percent, up from
613 percent from January 2006.
This implies, on average, household goods and services are now nine
times as expensive in February 2006 when compared to February 2005.
According to WFP's bi-weekly price collection, year on year maize
grain price inflation averaged record levels of 1,900 percent, outpacing
inflation in other sectors.
(c) Monitoring
reports indicate that people who are not receiving food aid are
harvesting their immature maize crops, which will negatively impact
the 2005/2006 harvest. The issue of early harvesting of maize crops
and its impact on food security was brought to the attention of
district authorities, who indicated they would take up the matter
with the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) with hopes of increasing grain
dispatches. The GMB depots continue to supply insufficient maize
to wards. In the west, GMB maize meal prices have risen from ZWD
282,000 to ZWD 785,000 for a 50 kilo bag. However, in the south,
where the last GMB supply was in December 2005, maize meal in local
shops is being sold at ZWD 5,000,000 for a 50kg bag. The current
UN exchange rate is ZWD109,125 to USD1.
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