SADC regional vulnerability assessment and analysis synthesis report 2017

State of food security and vulnerability in the Southern African Development Community 

This report provides an overview of the food security and livelihoods situation within the member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) for the 2017/18 marketing season/consumption year. 

Chapter one provides the report introduction, the objectives of the annual Dissemination Forum, and introduces briefly, the approaches and methods used in regional vulnerability assessment and analysis (RVAA). Chapter two presents the regional social economic summary. The chapter builds partly on secondary sources for issues such as macro-economic statistics, malnutrition and HIV prevalence, while National Vulnerability Assessment Committee (NVAC) data is the basis for information on crop production, cereal prices, and food security trends and livelihood vulnerability. Chapter three presents the main conclusions and recommendations of the Dissemination Forum. Chapter four provides highlights on the situation of individual Member States, while Chapter five provides an overview of on-going work critical methodological innovations in the RVAA work presented at the Dissemination Forum.