Immediate action is required to scale-up and sustain humanitarian assistance through at least mid-2023 to prevent rising levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition, mitigate the loss of life, and avert the Risk of Famine (IPC Phase 5).Ĭonvergent analyses indicate exceptional dryness and drought impacts Meanwhile, only 34 percent of the required USD $139.5 million for the October 2021-March 2022 period of the Kenya Drought Flash Appeal was met, and funding requirements for April-October 2022 period have risen further to USD $180.7 million.

The Somalia 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan for food security is only 20 percent funded to date.

At present, humanitarian response plans are massively under-funded.The impacts of the severe drought will intensify rapidly in the coming months due to the effects of the extremely poor March-April-May rains. More than seven million livestock have died, and millions of people face the threat of starvation. This exceptional four-season drought, amplified by exceptionally warm air temperatures and increased evaporative demand and desiccation, has been devastating to livelihoods and has produced repetitive, debilitating and cumulative shocks to herds, crops, water availability, and household incomes.Further concerns are raised by elevated risks of a fifth below-average rainy season in October-November-December. The ongoing, four-season drought has also been the most extensive and persistent event since 1981. Rainfall deficits during the recent March-April-May 2022 rainy season have been the most severe in at least the last 70 years in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.FEWS NET has now expanded to a global project with USAID this technology to Afghanistan, Southeast Asia and Central America.Today, the IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC), the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), and the World Food Program (WFP) have posted a joint statement on current food security implications of the ongoing multi-season drought in the eastern Horn of Africa, with new details on a forecasted fifth failed rainy season later this year. Develops stream flow estimates for flood risk monitoring, as well as scenarios for flood preparedness, in GIS environments.ĭata Archive and Dissemination - repository of FEWS NET Africa-wide data archive, and Africa Data Dissemination Service (ADDS) server.įEWS NET supports data collection and analysis in 17 African countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Southern Sudan, and Tanzania Malawi, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Spatial Data Modeling and Forecasting - Stream Flow Model. Provides access to relevant satellite data (e.g., AVHRR-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and Meteosat-derived rainfall estimates).Īgro-meteorological Product Development, such as rainfall estimate algorithm enhancement, and crop-specific water requirement satisfaction index (WRSI) modeling and yield reduction assessment.

USGS Data and Image Processing Support - remote sensing, image processing and interpretation, and GIS analyses. USGS Mission Tie In: This project provides numerous benefits to several Science Disciplines at the USGS: Since 1987, USGS/EDC has provided timely access to satellite data/products in order to identify potential and current problems related to crop conditions and/or flood risk throughout Africa. FEWS NET supports data collection and analysis in 17 African countries. The purpose of FEWS NET is to collect, analyze, and distribute information to decision makers regarding potential or current famine/flood situations, allowing them to authorize timely measures to prevent food-insecure conditions. Map of Africa showing Famine Early Warning System Network(Public domain.)

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