HC Deb 20 January 2003 vol 398 cc22-3W
Mr. Andrew Turner

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development what her estimate is of how many people are suffering from famine in(a) Zambia, (b) Malawi, (c) Zimbabwe and (d) other countries south of the Zambezi; and how much humanitarian aid was delivered to each country in 2002. [91257]

Clare Short

My estimate of how many people are suffering from famine is guided the by the Emergency Food Security Assessment Report prepared by the Southern Africa Development Community:

Lesotho: 650,000 people (30 per cent. of the population) will require an estimated 36,000 tonnes of emergency cereal food assistance through to March 2003.Malawi: 3,300,000 people (29 per cent. of the population) will require an estimated 237,000 tonnes of emergency cereal food assistance through to March 2003.Mozambique: 590,000 people (3 per cent. of the population) will require an estimated 48,000 tonnes of emergency cereal food assistance through to March 2003.Swaziland: 270,000 people (24 per cent. of the population) will require an estimated 20,000 tonnes of emergency cereal food assistance through to March 2003.Zambia: 2,900,000 people (26 per cent. of the population) will require an estimated 224,000 tonnes of emergency cereal food assistance through to March 2003.Zimbabwe: 6,700,000 people (49 per cent. of the population) will require an estimated 486,000 tonnes of emergency cereal food assistance through to March 2003.

Humanitarian aid is delivered through a co-ordinated approach and is best expressed by the following table:

Donor contributions in response to the humanitarian crisis (Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, regional)
£ million
Donor Contribution
USA1 175.2
EU-EC-ECHO2 112.7
United Kingdom 87.2
Sweden2 19.1
Germany2 13.3
Netherlands2 12.4
Italy2 8.8
Norway 8.4
Japan 7.9
Finland2 7.8
Canada 5.5
Denmark2 5.3
Australia 4.9
Ireland2 4.2
Switzerland 3.1
France2 1.9
Belgium2 1.5
Spain2 0.5
Austria2 0.2
Luxemburg2 0.2
1USAID Southern Africa Complex Food Security Crisis Situation Report 5 (FY 2003)
2As reported through ECHO 14 point fax system 1 January-19 December 2002 (Euro/GBP exchange rate Financial Times 11 December 2002: 0.64008)

Source:

Data from Reliefweb/USAID/EC