AIDE HUMANIT URGENCE VICTIMES SECHERESSE

The present intervention concerns the emergency humanitarian assistance to drought affected populations. It's designed because of the drought period experienced by Niger in 2009, which resulted in an acute food crisis. The gravity of the situation is such that the food crisis prevention and management system put in place by the authorities is no longer able to meet the needs of the population. The 2009 crop year in Niger, which experienced more than a deficit rainfall, was completed with a deficit cereal balance of 120,000 tonnes based on the availability and consumption of millet, sorghum, maize and fonio cereals. Including other irrigated cereals, notably rice and wheat, the total cereal deficit amounts to 411,000 tons; which corresponds to a decrease of 36% compared to 2008. The support of the African Development Bank should complement the interventions of the other partners and those already implemented by the Nigerian authorities and devoted mainly to the purchase of seeds and zootechnical inputs.