- Natural conditions favorable for crop and stock farming have reduced food insecurity in the rainfed crop zone; the central and eastern parts of the mixed crop and stockfarming zone' and the oasis, herding, and cultivated wadis zone. Farmers will remain food secure until December.
- Despite the season's late start, households in the western part of the mixed crop and stock farming zone, the Senegal river valley (7) and the nomadic herding zone (4) that practice herding as their main activity will experience the best conditions of the year between October and December. This will bring them general food security. However, the expected decrease in long cycle cereal crop production following problems with access to seed for rainfed (dieri) crops, access to credit for irrigated crops, and the late flood stage for flood recession crops, in association with the seasonal deterioration of millet/ram terms of trade, will reverse this trend and place households in a situation of moderate food insecurity between January and March 2010.
- Coastal villages of the littoral zone (3) have recovered their food security since May with the lifting of restrictions on exporting fish. They will maintain it throughout the period covered by this outlook. In contrast, despite stable prices attributable largely to the shops opened by the government, many urban poor households in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou have lost their income sources due to the economic crisis affecting the tertiary and informal sectors. No event is foreseen during the period covered by this outlook that could change their current, highly food insecure status.
