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Mali - Malnutrition

Map of Mali

Regional Team: SWAN

Disaster Declared: 10/11/2005

Brief Description: In the northern Malian regions of Gao, Kidal, and Timbuktu, poor rainfall and desert locusts in 2004, combined with other factors such as high fuel prices, increased cereal prices to record highs while livestock values plummeted. These events exacerbated existing vulnerabilities and resulted in elevated food insecurity in agro-pastoral and pastoral zones.
Pastoralists suffered a high rate of animal loss in 2004 and 2005 and experienced distorted terms of trade due to falling livestock prices, forcing many to assume high levels of debt in order to purchase food. Although well distributed rainfall during the 2005 rainy season improved pastoral conditions and resulted in a good harvest, rural Malians remain vulnerable in 2006 as a result of households’ liquidation of crops to pay back loans incurred during the 2005 hunger season.
On October 11, 2005, U.S. Ambassador Terence P. McCulley declared a disaster for a second consecutive year due to food insecurity and malnutrition in Mali. OFDA’s assistance focuses in the sectors of food security, agriculture, and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) capacity building. In response to the 2005 humanitarian emergency, USAID deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) to the region from August to September 2005.

FY2006

• 02-23-2006 Sahelian West Africa Situation Report #1(90kb PDF)(map)

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