HC Deb 28 October 2002 vol 391 c560W
Dr. Tonge

To 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.

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