Key Points
41 percent of households consumed an inadequate diet in the mid- and far-western mountains in June 2017 compared to 34.4 percent in November 2016. This is significantly higher than the national average of 28 percent (WFP, 2015)
30 percent of households reported that they sometimes did not have enough food or money to buy food in the 30 days before the survey in June 2017, an increase from 16 percent in November 2016. Borrowing money or food from lenders, friends and relatives was a common coping strategy.
More than half of the households (54.6 percent) faced different shocks in the 6 months preceding the survey, which is significantly higher than November 2016 survey when it was 34 percent. The majority of households (52.8 percent) that faced a shock had only partially recovered.
Markets in the mid- and far-western mountains in June 2017 were operating normally in terms of supply, demand and transportation services and the prices of the food commodities have increased marginally since November 2016.