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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.

 Daa Nyeeno - Food Security and Market Information Bulletin for The Gambia aims at informing decision makers and policies on the evolving food security situation in the country. It is complementary to existing early warning and food security monitoring products and provides an up-to-date analysis of food security synthesizing data on agricultural production, climate forecast, food trade and price trends and household vulnerability. Daa Nyeeno is a joint effort by government institutions, NGOs and UN agencies and will be published on a quarterly basis.

Atypical drought conditions in the US causes wheat, maize and soya prices to soar (figure 1). According to data record-ed by the World Bank in July 2012, wheat increased by 50%, maize by 45% and soya by 30% since mid-June 2012. By contrast, rice prices remained stable until July 2012. Compared to the 5-year average, maize, soya and wheat increased by 59%, 44% and 31%, respectively, and rice increased only by 8%. A new bullish phase in inter-national markets could impact regional markets and the food access of West African households already affected by the current nutrition and food crisis.

Daa Nyeeno - Food Security and Market Information Bulletin for The Gambia aims at informing decision makers and policies on the evolving food security situation in the country. It is complementary to existing early warning and food security monitoring products and provides an up-to-date analysis of food security synthesizing data on agricultural production, climate forecast, food trade and price trends and household vulnerability. Daa Nyeeno is a joint effort by government institutions, NGOs and UN agencies and will be published on a quarterly basis.

Daa Nyeeno - Food Security and Market Information Bulletin for The Gambia aims at informing decision makers and policies on the evolving food security situation in the country. It is complementary to existing early warning and food security monitoring products and provides an up-to-date analysis of food security synthesizing data on agricultural production, climate forecast, food trade and price trends and household vulnerability. Daa Nyeeno is a joint effort by government institutions, NGOs and UN agencies and will be published on a quarterly basis.

The assessment is based on primary and secondary data collection. Price data was obtained from the Gambian Ministry of Trade and the Gambian Bureau of Statistics as well as selected local markets.

Primary data was collected on several markets through focus group discussions and interviews with traders. Data collection tools included a market questionnaire, a trader questionnaire and an interview guide for discussions with importers. Markets were selected based on the number of people that use these markets as their primary source of staple food, essentially urban and peri-urban markets.

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

Analysis was set to identify missing or poor information on national markets , cross-border trade and variables underlying the pricing of products needed to food security of the Sahel.