Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Food Insecurity in Northern Mali
- Conflict
- Resistance against food Aid
- Blocking delivery of aid
- Must rely on Substinence Farming
- 75% of Malians rely on Substinence Famrning
- Economy cannot progress
- Farmers experience many problems
- Can't drive along many roads to pick up
supplies because of soldiers
- Food distribution stops
- May be forced to become soldiers so no one is working the fields
- No crops can be planted
- Farmer's fields may be used as a battle
ground or to build bases
- No room to grow crops
- Lack of supply due to lack
of security
- Farmers cannot grow foods
to provide people with
- Soldiers may confiscate food at any time
- Leaving villages without
adequate supply
- Fields and land may be
mined
- Makes unusable land to
produce crops
- Drought
- Most of Country is desert
- Not being able to grow crops
- Not being able to Subsistence Farm
- Not being able to sell extra produce
- Constantly relying on basic foods
- Depending on aid organisations
- High Salinity levels of a desert
- Land will become more prone to erosion
- Soil becomes infertile
- Frequently occurring and
unpredictable extreme
climate conditions
- Crops can be easily destroyed
- Very little rainfall
- Only 127mm of rain per year
- No water for crops and produce
- Unable to grow food
- Will only receive rain during between June and August
- Proof of how little rainfall Northern Mali receives
- Level of water for cattle and other animals is low
- Animals could die or become sick from no water
- No grass or other shrubs can grow
- No feed for cattle and other animals
- No Grass
- grow
- Inflation
- Food crisis in 2008
- The price for many grains doubled
- Unable to purchase grains
for staple foods
- Examples of the Inflation in
Northern Mali
- Fuel
- Fuel crisis in 2008
- Unable to purchase fuel to run a car because its too expensive
- Not able to drive to different markets to sell produce
- No money
- Not earning money to purchase special food
- Income of people decreasing
- People can't afford even the
most basic foods
- Prices increasing
- People have to spend all of their money
on the rising prices of food
- No money going to other
industries, e.g.clothes
- Economy deteriorates