Food Security in Arakan (Rakhine) State
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Topic:
Food and Nutrition, Shelter and Non-Food Items
Topic:
Food and Nutrition, Shelter and Non-Food Items
Description:
"During April 2-8, 2021, Mercy Corps’ Market Analysis Unit (MAU) conducted phone interviews with retailers in Rakhine State to measure the impact of recent events on supply chains for common household goods. Data are based on a convenience sample of 160 active retailers in eight townships, most of whom sell within marketplaces in towns. The study focuses on retailers of products tracked in the MAU’s monthly Market Price Reports.....Key Highlights: Nine in ten respondents faced major livelihood challenges in the past month, often related to poor demand, limited supply, rising prices, or poor access to cash and credit;
Seventy percent of respondents saw reduced customers and spending last month;
More than one-third of respondents report limited supply and larger lead times, particularly for non-food-items (NFIs) sourced from outside of Rakhine State;
One-quarter of retailers expect to face limited supply next month, particularly for NFIs like hygiene and kitchenware but also food items like cooking oil and packaged foods;
Half of retailers say they may raise prices this month on NFIs and certain foods, such as cooking oil and locally-produced rice and fish;
Half of retailers say their access to cash is sustainable for two months or more;
One-third of retailers expect to earn less income this month than last..."
Source/publisher:
Mercy Corps (Portland)
Date of publication:
2021-04- 08
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-25
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Individual Documents
Category:
Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security in Arakan (Rakhine) State, Sustainable/alternative development in and for Burma
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Topic:
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
Topic:
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
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"The average retail price of rice and cooking oil continue an upward trend.
Since January, the average retail price of rice has increased 5% across monitored markets, with higher increases in central Rakhine (7%), Chin (8%) and Kachin (11%).
The average retail price of cooking oil increased 9% month-on-month. Over the past two months, the average price of cooking oil has increased 18%.
The price of chickpeas increased 5% month-on-month on average, with higher increases over the past two months in Chin (9%), Kachin (18%) and southern Rakhine (19%).
In March, higher than average increases in the price of rice, oil, and pulses were recorded in southern and central Rakhine, Chin, and Kachin.
Transport difficulties are driving up prices and increasing lead times across the country.
In urban areas, between the last week of February to mid-March, a 7% increase in the retail price of rice and a 4% increase in the retail price of cooking oil was recorded in peri-urban Yangon. In Mandalay there has been a 6% increase in the retail price of cooking oil..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (WFP) (Rome) via reliefweb (New York)
Date of publication:
2021-03-00
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-25
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
WFP (World Food Programme), Food Security and nutrition in Burma/Myanmar, Food Security in Arakan (Rakhine) State, Food Security in Chin State, Food Security in Kachin State, Agriculture in Burma/Myanmar: general and research
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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned of rising food and fuel prices as the current political unrest starts to impact supply chains and markets.
Description:
"WFP’s food price monitoring shows that food prices are trending upwards in some urban areas with the retail price of palm oil up 20 percent since the start of February in the peri-urban areas of the main city Yangon, and rice prices in the peri-urban areas of Yangon and Mandalay also up 4 percent since the last week of February.
Across the country, the cost of rice showed an average increase of 3 percent on monitored markets from mid-January to mid-February. However, in a few townships in Kachin state, such as Bhamo and Putao, the increases are 20-35 percent.
“These initial signs are troubling, especially for the most vulnerable people who were already living meal-to-meal,” said WFP Myanmar Country Director Stephen Anderson. “Coming on top of the COVID-19 pandemic, if these price trends continue they will severely undermine the ability of the poorest and most vulnerable to put enough food on the family table.”
Steep spikes in oil prices have been observed in northern Rakhine where the average retail price of cooking oil increased by 27 percent from January to February, and in Maungdaw township the price of pulses jumped 15 percent. Increases in the price of cooking oil have also been observed in central Rakhine State (11 percent) and in Tanintharyi Region (14 percent).
WFP has also noted an increase of 15 percent in the cost of fuel countrywide since 1 February, raising concerns about further food price hikes. In northern Rakhine, the price of petrol has increased by 33 percent and diesel by 29 percent.
These rising food and fuel prices are compounded by the near paralysis of the banking sector, slowdowns in remittances, and widespread limits on cash availability.
In order to ensure life-saving monthly cash and food distributions continue to over 360,000 people – mainly internally displaced and living in camps – WFP is building a contingency food stock, which would allow a switch from cash to in-kind food assistance in case cash availability continues to be limited, or market supply is constrained.
“WFP reiterates the call of the United Nations Secretary-General for the will of the Myanmar people expressed in recent elections to be respected,” said Anderson. “At WFP we know all too well how hunger can quickly follow when peace and dialogue are sidelined.”
WFP’s food price data were collected from more than 70 townships, across 100 markets and 250 plus separate traders and shops. While monitoring the new trends closely, WFP’s first priority is to ensure its monthly life-saving food assistance continues to reach those in need..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme (Rome)
Date of publication:
2021-03-16
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-24
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Individual Documents
Category:
WFP (World Food Programme), Food Security and the economy in Burma, Food Security in Arakan (Rakhine) State, Arakan (Rakhine) State - reports etc. by date (latest first)
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"The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is to mount a new food assistance operation, targeting up to 2 million vulnerable people in the poor townships in Myanmar’s main cities and other areas where population displacement has recently taken place.
With the triple impact of pre-existing poverty, COVID-19 and the current political crisis, hunger and desperation are rising sharply across Myanmar. WFP estimates that within the next six months, up to 3.4 million more people will be hungry, particularly those in urban centres.
“More and more poor people have lost their jobs and are unable to afford food,” said WFP Myanmar Country Director Stephen Anderson. “A concerted response is required now to alleviate immediate suffering, and to prevent an alarming deterioration in food security.”
Already, there are signs of families in and around Yangon being pushed to the edge, skipping meals, eating less nutritious food and going into debt, just to survive. WFP’s response in Yangon will target 10 of the poorest townships, many of which are home to large informal settlements. WFP is also monitoring the situation in other parts of the country, and is ready to provide assistance to affected communities, including those newly displaced by armed conflict, if required.
The latest WFP market monitoring shows that in Yangon and across the country, the average rice price has increased by 5% since January, and the average cooking oil price has increased by 18% since February. In Yangon, an up to 25% increase in cooking oil price was also recorded. The increases are particularly high in some border states including Rakhine, Kachin and Chin. In Kachin state, for example, rice prices have risen by up to 43% in some townships, and cooking oil by 32%. The price of fuel has increased by roughly 30% nationwide.
Despite the volatile situation, WFP has maintained its humanitarian assistance to internally displaced people and other vulnerable populations affected by long-running conflict. In March, WFP assistance reached 374,000 people in conflict affected areas of southern Chin, Kachin, Rakhine and northern Shan states.
In the coming months, the number of people WFP assists will nearly triple – from 1.3 million to 3.3 million. To do this, US$106 million is required urgently.
“To prevent a large-scale humanitarian crisis unfolding in front of our eyes, we must step up. We count on the international community to continue standing with the people of Myanmar,” said Anderson..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme(Rome)
Date of publication:
2021-04-22
Date of entry/update:
2021-04-24
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services), Food Security and displacement in Burma, Food Security and the economy in Burma, Food Security in Chin State, Food Security in Kachin State, Food Security in Arakan (Rakhine) State, Food Security in Shan State, Burma: Internal displacement/forced migration of several ethnic groups.
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"ဤစားနပ်ရိက္ခာဖူလုံမှုဆန်းစစ်လေ့လာခြင်းကို ၂၀၁၇ မတ်လနှင့်ဧပြီလအတွင်းတွင်ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ကုလသမဂ္ဂကမ္ဘာ့စားနပ်ရိက္ခာအစီအစဉ်အနေဖြင့် ဤဆန်းစစ်လေ့လာမှုမှရရှိသော သတင်းအချက်အလက်များအတိုင်း ရပ်တည်လျှက်ရှိပြီး၊ထိုနောက်ပိုင်းတွင်
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းရှိအခြေအနေသည်သိသိသာသာပြောင်းလဲလျှက်
ရှိနေပါသည်။ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းတွင်သြဂုတ်လ၂၅ ရက်နေ့မှ
စတင်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သောအကြမ်းဖက်မှုများကြောင့်လူဦးရေခြောက်သိန်းကျော်
ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နိုင်ငံတွင်းသို့နယ်စပ်ဖြတ်ကျော်ရွေ့ပြောင်းမှုများရှိနေ
ပါသည်။ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မြောက်ပိုင်းတွင်လေ့လာဆန်းစစ်မှုအသစ်များ
ဆောင်ရွက်နိုင်ရန်နှင့်အခက်အခဲများရင်ဆိုင်နေကြရသည့်
ဤဒေသတွင်နေထိုင်ကြသောလူများ၏စားနပ်ရိက္ခာလိုအပ်ချက်များ
ဖြည့်ဆည်းပေးနိုင်ရန်ကုလသမဂ္ဂကမ္ဘာ့စားနပ်ရိက္ခာအစီအစဉ်အား
အဆောတလျင်ဝင်ရောက်ခွင့်ပြုရန် မဖြစ်မနေလိုအပ်နေပါသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme
Date of publication:
2017-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2017-12-28
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food Security in Arakan (Rakhine) State
Language:
Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description:
"In March 2017, following the November and December 2016 remote emergency assessments, WFP in collaboration with the Food Security Information Network (FSIN) partners, conducted a food security assessment as part of the bi-annual Food Security Monitoring active in 110 Townships.
Between 16 March and 10 April 2017, the monitoring system covered 450 households in 45 villages in Buthidaung and Maungdaw Townships. The survey relied on a statistically representative township-level sample and it was designed to assess the food security and livelihood situation and give an indication of infant and young child feeding practices (See the Methodology section for additional details)..."
Source/publisher:
World Food Programme
Date of publication:
2017-07-00
Date of entry/update:
2017-12-28
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Food Security in Arakan (Rakhine) State
Language:
English
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pdf
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1.23 MB
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