Normal to above-normal rains result in heavy flooding
Key Messages
- The number of people requiring emergency food assistance up to December 2010 is likely to decrease following the June/July 2010 belg harvest, generally stable prices across the country, improved availability of water and pasture, and favorable livestock to cereals terms of trade in pastoral and agropastoral areas.
- Following normal to above normal kiremt/karma rains, heavy floods have affected a large number of people in different parts of the country. Floods in Amhara and Afar Regions were particularly severe.
- Staple food prices are unseasonably low this year. This is expected to benefit the poor farmers, urban poor, pastoral and agro pastoral population who spend a significant proportion of their income on the purchase of food.