Food Security Monitor
June 2022, Edition #26
The goal of AGRA’s Food Security Monitor is to provide an overview assessment of the food security outlook in AGRA focus countries in East, West, and Southern Africa, taking into account the movement of prices of main food staples and government interventions that impact domestic and regional food trade alongside the impact of forecast weather changes and environmental conditions on food security.
Our monthly Food Security Monitor is one way that AGRA makes data available to key stakeholders to underpin evidence-based decision-making.
Highlights from the June Food Security Monitor are the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism (AFFM) announced that it will extend a $2 million partial trade credit guarantee to ETG Inputs Ghana Limited to support the delivery of fertilizer to 200,000 smallholder farmers in Ghana’s Upper East, Savannah, Northeast, and Northern Regions.
The food insecurity hotspots in June 2022 were South Sudan, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger. The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict continues to drive cereal shortages, particularly for wheat across most import-dependent countries in East Africa, resulting in price surges that are eroding household economic capacity to access food.
On-going harvests are improving household access to food across most parts of the Southern African region, but challenges remain in some deficit areas, where IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) outcomes are being experienced.
