Food Assistance Fact Sheet - Djibouti

February 4, 2013

Food Security Situation  

Map of Djibouti
CIA World Factbook

  • The 2011 UN Development Program (UNDP) Human Development Index ranks Djibouti 165 out of 187countries.  The population of Djibouti is almost entirely dependent on imported food.

  • Djibouti has a climate unsuited to production of crops other than small amounts of vegetables.  Rural populations depend primarily on livestock.   Erratic rainfall has led to a continuing drought, causing alarming food shortages and high levels of malnutrition.

  • Djibouti continues to host to over 17,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia. The ongoing arrival of refugees has increased humanitarian needs in all sectors in the overcrowded camp.   
     

Food Assistance Programs

  • The Office of Food for Peace (FFP) is targeting approximately 220,000 chronically food-insecure people including 198,000 Djiboutian pastoralists and approximately 17,380 refugees from Somalia and Yemen.

  • FFP partners with the UN World Food Program (WFP) to provide food assistance to vulnerable groups and refugees countrywide. 

Food for Peace Contributions

Total Contributions:

  U.S. Dollars Metric Tons
Fiscal Year 2013 ---- ----
Fiscal Year 2012 $2.3 million 2,140 MT
Fiscal Year 2011 $4.8 million 4,380 MT
Fiscal Year 2010 $2.1 million 2.040 MT
Fiscal Year 2009 ---- ----

Fiscal Year 2013 Contribution Breakdown:

  U.S. Dollars Metric Tons
Title II Development ---- ----
Title II Emergency ---- ----
Emergency Food Security Program (EFSP) ---- ----

Note: Food Security Situation information provided by UNDP and FEWS NET as of January 2013

Last updated: February 04, 2013

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