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WFP Emergency Report No. 35 of 2006
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
September 01, 2006

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Zimbabwe
(a) According to WFP field reports, some households in the eastern and south-eastern districts are rapidly exhausting their cereal stocks. Households are reducing the number of meals and meal proportions as a coping mechanism to preserve their limited supplies. Reports from Bulawayo urban indicate unavailability of maize grain and maize meal due to the lack of maize grain distributions by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB, the state-owned supplier of commercial maize) for the past two weeks. However, limited quantities can be obtained on the parallel market at a 25 percent price increase compared to mid-August.

(b) In August, approximately 800,000 food insecure people will benefit from WFP targeted programmes. Interventions include assistance for mobile and vulnerable persons, home- based care for the chronically ill, support for orphans and vulnerable children, school feeding and family child health and nutrition support. New pledges of some80,000 tons in priority commodities are urgently required to meet anticipated shortfalls during the period of September 2006 through July 2007. Without these pledges WFP will have to further reduce programme coverage in the coming months.

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