The combined threat of drought, high food prices, displacement and chronic poverty is affecting millions of people in 2012 as a new food crisis emerges across the Sahel Region. Food insecurity and malnutrition are recurrent in the region with more than 18 million people directly at risk this year.

Drought has reduced overall Sahelian cereal production by 26 percent as compared to last year, Chad and Mauritania are experiencing 50 percent decreases and other countries are suffering serious localized deficits.

Severe fodder shortages are leading to early transhumance and changing livestock corridors, causing tensions to rise between communities and at border areas. Read more...