§ Dr. TongeTo ask the Secretary of State for International Development what the estimated amount of food aid required by the World Food Programme is; and how much has been distributed to(a) Zambia,(b) Zimbabwe,(c) Malawi, (d) Mozambique, (e) Lesotho, (f) Swaziland and (g) Angola. [74880]
§ Clare Short
World Food Programme emergency operation for southern Africa Country Planned food aid needs July 2002-March 2003 Quantities delivered Quantities in transit Zimbabwe 452,955 MT 15,490 MT 51,400 MT Malawi 264,501 MT 39,009 MT 80,636 MT Zambia 130,603 MT 7,218 MT 46,467 MT Mozambique 54,145 MT 0 MT 11,982 MT Lesotho 64,089 MT 29,931 MT 33,577 MT Swaziland 26,166 MT 818 MT 16,860 MT Angola (to Dec 2003) 305,598 MT 77,366 MT 83,531 MT The World Food Programme (WFP) is currently revising its requirements for the southern Africa humanitarian crisis in the light of a recent assessment of needs to March 2003 by the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Vulnerability Assessment Committee of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). Planning since April has assumed that needs will peak in the period December 2002 to March 2003.
Figures do not include food aid from WFP's previous country-specific programmes which have been transferred to the regional emergency operation, and which met needs early in the marketing year from May. Neither do they include food aid deliveries through other (non-WFP) parallel pipelines.