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Every month, WFP and FAO issue an information note on food security trends and humanitarian implications in West Africa. The bulletin offers analysis of food availability international and regional market trends, and provides updates on household food security in the region. Recommendations are made for humanitarian interventions. The bulletin is published in both French and English.

This bulletin provides information on price changes for the most commonly consumed staples and their potential impacts on the cost of the basic food basket.

The Global Food Security Update provides an overview of the food security trends in 57 countries in six regions and offers an outlook for the 3-6 months following its release. It is based on food security monitoring reports, updates from WFP’s regional and country-based Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) units and a review of secondary information.

Benin is a coastal west african country with stong trading links with neighboring Niger and Nigeria. ONASA, the national food security agency, publishes monthly bulletins on market trends, which monitor staple food prices and key economic indicators. In 2010, Benin became an important procurement base for WFP.  

Every month, WFP and FAO issue an information note on food security trends and humanitarian implications in West Africa. The bulletin offers analysis of food availabily, international and regional market trends, and provides updates on household food security in the region. Recommendations are made for humanitarian interventions. The bulletin is published in both French and English.

Benin is a coastal west african country with stong trading links with neighboring Niger and Nigeria. ONASA, the national food security agency, publishes monthly bulletins on market trends, which monitor staple food prices and key economic indicators. In 2010, Benin became an important procurement base for WFP.  

The purpose of this bulletin is to provide information on trends of food commodities prices in the main local markets in Benin from October 2007 to October 2008 compared to the international market of Durban (South Africa).

This bulletin provides members of the regional-level Food Security and Nutrition and decision-makers in West Africa with an overview of the food security situation, including the impliaction of international and sub-regional market trends. On West African ma