
Dijbouti
Locals shop for bargains in the market place in Djibouti It is not lack of food availablity which causes malnutrition in Djibouti but more lack of ability and means to pay for the food due to poverty and soaring food prices
BACKGROUND
Drought conditions and high staple food prices have left approximately 441000
people at risk of extreeme food insecurity and in urgent need of emergency food
andor nonâfood assistance through the end of 2009 according to the latest
government United Nations and FEWS NET estimate Four consecutive
years of minimal rains to support pastoral and agropastoral production have left
rural and urban Djiboutians even more dependent on food imports at a time when
international commodity prices have risen steadily Unless additional assistance is
mobilized to address extreme food insecurity particularly in pastoral areas of the
northwest and southeast as well as in urban areas conditions are likely to
deteriorate further Dry conditions have resulted in high and rising leve