The government and some NGOs say they are short of funding to adequately scale up an emergency response to the needs of 629,000 people who face food insecurity in parts of western, northern and northeastern Mali.
The government needs US$59 million more - to add to the $69 million it has already committed - to launch its response, according to food security commissioner Lansry Nana Yaya Haidara.
Oxfam needs to raise US$4.5 million before it can realize its plans to distribute food to the poorest families in and around Gao, northeastern Mali, and destock 6,000 sheep and goats, its food security head Abdoul Kadri told IRIN.
Most at risk are 258,000 people across 23 communes in Kayes in the west, Timbuktu in the central-north, and Gao and Kidal in the north and northeast, according to the most recent government survey.
Rains came late in 2009 - in July - and were erratic across the country, leading to patchy harvests. Unexpected rainfall in November also destroyed some cereal stocks, said the government assessment. Pastoralists have been heading south in droves to find pasture for their herds, leaving women, children and a few animals, behind in the north.
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