---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IRIN <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:31:52 -0000 Subject: KENYA: Dry data To: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]>
KENYA: Dry data NAIROBI, 8 September 2011 (IRIN) - East African leaders, donors and NGOs began a two-meeting in the Kenyan capital on 8 September to once again discuss how to prevent the region's frequent droughts from triggering severe food crises or even famine. By the government's own admission, in Kenya, weather shocks repeatedly and unnecessarily lead to crises because of the perennial marginalization of vast areas of the country where raising livestock is the main occupation. The following data are extracted from the government's latest "sustainable solutions" plan (with one self-evident exception): 12 percent: contribution to GDP from pastoralism, which receives almost no government subsidies; More than 80 percent: land mass covered by arid or semi-arid areas (ASALs); 36 percent: primary school enrolment rate in Northeastern province; 93 percent: national average enrolment rate; 3.8 million: people in ASALs currently affected by drought; 700,000: people in other rural areas facing food insecurity (many more in urban areas); 2.4 percent: annual GDP loss attributed to severe drought and floods; US$8 million: amount donated by citizens to the current relief effort; $4 million: approximate amount lost to suspected fraud from a recent World Bank arid lands project; $740 million: estimated cost of humanitarian response to current national disaster; $173 million: annual government expenditure on emergency operations between 1999 and 2010; Less than 10 percent: proportion of usual rain that fell on much of northern Kenya during 2011 long rains; 70-130 percent: rise above five-year averages of current maize prices in parts of the country; 175,000: projected deficit, in tons, of maize by June 2012. am/mw [END] This report online: http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportID=93681 © IRIN. All rights reserved. More humanitarian news and analysis: http://www.irinnews.org/ [This item comes to you via IRIN, the humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the United Nations or its Member States. Reposting or reproduction, with attribution, for non-commercial purposes is permitted. Terms and conditions: http://www.irinnews.org/copyright.aspx IRIN partners: UAE, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, UNEP and the IHC. More information: http://www.irinnews.org/donors.aspx This mail is from an automatic address. Contact IRIN at: [email protected]. Revise/stop your subscription: http://bit.ly/9nCoUP ] Subscribed email: [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
