SADC Food Reserve Facility
The SADC Secretariat is developing a Regional Food Reserve Facility, which will ensure physical stocks and financial reserves for use in times of food crisis.
The facility is aimed at strengthening the SADC region’s capacity to deal with food deficits arising from disasters such as drought, floods and cyclones.
Member States will use the facility to timely access food and finances to minimise the impact of disasters on food security.
The ad-hoc committee of ministers responsible for food, agriculture and natural resources agreed at a meeting in Zambia in June agreed that Member States will need to carry out further national consultations on the facility.
The ministers reviewed the overall food security situation in the region and noted that only five out of the 14 SADC Member States had received above average rainfall during the 2006/07 season.
These are Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia.
Lower harvests are expected in Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and possibly South Africa, mainly due to drought and, in some cases, floods and cyclones.
SADC Today - http://www.sardc.net/Editorial/sadctoday/view.asp?vol=552&pubno=v10n2
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