This updated picture of the nutrition situation of children enables UNICEF and its partners to fine-tune the intervention already under way to attend to an estimated 275,000 malnourished children during the months of the lean season (July to October).
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In interviews this week, program officials said that releasing the corn would reduce prices and relieve the need for donated food as Zimbabwe approaches its leanest agricultural months, February, March and April.
Supplementary feeding is also practiced during lean period between March and June when the grass is almost completely grazed by the animals.
In Niger, program admissions increase in the "hunger gap", the long lean season from May to October before the harvest.
On the onset of the lean season between May and September, family food stocks are at their lowest.
The stock makes grain available at affordable prices during the lean season, between July and October, when families have exhausted their food supplies and the new crops have not yet been harvested.
The situation is likely to become considerably worse in the lean months between May and September, as most of last year's harvest has been consumed, stocks are critically low, significant commercial imports are unlikely and there is virtually no further food assistance in the pipeline.
The food supply situation will, therefore, be critical in the lean months between May and September, as most of last year's harvest has been consumed, stocks are critically low, there is very little likelihood of significant commercial imports and there is virtually no further food assistance in the pipeline.
That was slightly leaner than June's 56.2, but better than the 54.2 analysts anticipated and strong enough to keep the morning's advance rolling through midday.
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