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The Niger Response Overview – May 2021

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Key points

• Food insecurity in the Niger is linked to armed conflict (especially in the Lake Chad Basin, Liptako Gourma area, northern Tahoua and southern Maradi) triggering forced population displacements, livelihood disruptions, competition over access and use of agricultural land and natural resources, the impact of floods, as well as the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

• Global acute malnutrition has increased from 10.7 percent (2019) to 12.7 percent (2020).

• A joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/Famine Early Warning Systems Network/World Food Programme regional market analysis (March 2021) indicates an alarming increase in the market prices of the main foodstuffs across the region, including in the Niger, with increases of up to 26 percent above the five-year average (and 54 percent higher compared with 2019) for cereals. This trend is expected to intensify during the lean season.

• FAO urgently requires USD 6.1 million by July 2021 to support 52 000 vulnerable households with quality inputs for rainfed crop production and 22 600 households through the provision of livestock feed and cash-based transfers.