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Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Country: Zambia
More than 2.4 million people are expected to be severely food insecure during the lean season from this October to March 2020, with at least 430,000 people in emergency levels.
In support of the Government-led response in Zambia, the UN and humanitarian partners have launched a seven-month Humanitarian Response Plan to address rising humanitarian needs triggered by the poorest rainfall season since 1981 in the southern part of the country, which has sharply reduced cereal crop production.
The decrease in maize production was so severe that the country, normally a net cereal exporter, put a ban on maize exports. A range of livestock diseases has compounded the crisis.
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