AFGHANISTAN: IPC Acute Food Insecurity Sn apshot | - March - October 2024

In the past five years, Afghanistan has adversely affect crop growth during the reducing the cost of living, it is likely food and purchasing power, average influx of labourers, thereby driving outlook period and increase the risk of to negatively impact the broader especially for those living down average incomes and exacerbating pluvial and fluvial flooding. [...] About half a million approximately 12 million people per month at the beginning of the year to as low as 3 million people per month support spring season crop cultivation, prepare for the people returned to Afghanistan as of December 2023, and more in September and October 2023 in order to reserve resources for the winter. [...] and control measures for crop pests and diseases to of the country experiencing between 60 to 90 percent of the For the months of May and June 2024, only around 300,000 people are expected to be covered by HFA under prevent losses in agricultural production. [...] Precipitation from March to May 2024 is anticipated to range from average to above average, with causes of food insecurity and bolster the resilience and forecasts indicating a transition from El Niño to neutral conditions livelihoods of the impacted population, considering their in April and May, followed likely La Niña events by July 2024. [...] Due to the improved precipitation forecast and to gender considerations, specifically tailored to support the impact of the expanded emergency livelihood support, it is households led by women, as well as women and children expected that the areas cultivated with certified wheat seeds will who encounter obstacles in accessing their fundamental increase, positively contributing to the overall wheat.