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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.

Mauritania - Système d’Information des Marchés, 2012

The 2011 rainy season was characterized by a poor distribution of rainfall over space and time resulting in low pasture growth and the failure of rain-fed crops. To have a clearer picture of the impact of the rainfall deficient and high food prices on populations, the Food Security Commission (CSA) and WFP organized a new round of data collection of its monitoring of household food security commonly called FSMS (Food Security Monitoring System). This survey was conducted in the period of the year when the food situation has usually stabilized (post-harvest period).

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.

Mauritania - Sécurité alimentaire bulletin, 2011

Mauritania - Système d’Information des Marchés, 2011

Prices of food products in markets in Mauritania. Includes information on cereal prices, terms of trade and import parity prices.

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