Food and Water Security Indexes and its relation to Somalia

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According to data compiled by Maplecroft, a British risk analysis and rating firm that evaluates the risks to the supply of basic food staples for 163 countries, Somalia is not in the top 10 countries which are facing extreme food shortages. This is because the last Gu rainy season was very good and above average in most areas, and stability in certain parts of Somalia, particularly South and Central Somalia, was also very good. "Afghanistan (1) is rated as least secure in food supplies, whilst the African nations of the Democratic Republic of Congo (2), Burundi (3), Eritrea (4), Sudan (5), Ethiopia (6), Angola (7), Liberia (8), Chad (9) and Zimbabwe (10) are also considered "extreme risk." In all, African nations make up 36 of the 50 nations most at risk in the index."

Can you imagine Somalia without strong central government and all of the wars imposed on its people is doing far better than Burundi that has sent troops to Somalia, Ethiopia which is one of the countries that have embroiled militarily in the internal affairs of Somalia, and stable countries like Sudan and Angola that have oil exports? While I sympathize fellow Muslim and African countries that are not part of the war of aggression against the people of Somalia, what is clearly a miracle is that we are not the least secured country in Africa when it comes to food. I think we should all say Alxamdu-lillaah. Definitely, the stability in South and Central Somalia, the rejection of WFP interference, the self reliance policies that were encouraged by the rulers in the South, and Alhamdu-lillaah the Gu rainy season that was very good earlier this year have all contributed to this great news.

There is a long way to go though as we are still rated the least secured country when it comes to clean and fresh water, according the Water Security Risk Index 2010 that was also issued by the same firm, Maplecroft. This is understandable since most of Somalia is arid desert and what is rated is not lack of water but the lack of clean and fresh water. It is true that most of the water that is consumed in Somalia is a polluted one but in Somalia what matters to most of the people is having water and not fresh and clean water. This is achievable when security and stability is established in all of the country and the cost of refined water is greatly reduced in all of the country so people can afford it.

http://www.maplecroft.com/about/news/food-security.html
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[Jamac_Yare]

i cant imagine a funtioning Govt in somalia neither can all the ppl born post 1990 this chaos is what we know of somalia
pls spare us the good old days when adeeroo used to go al cuurba nightclub

[DR-YALAXOOW]

WARYAA wahaabi qabiiliiste somalis is not facing food shortages thanks somali diaspora and money we send to somalia, more tha million somalis live middel east, Europe, North america, austalia ,
somalia is not on that list only thanks to those money we get from non islamic countres such as united state of america,swede, uk norwey, finland austalia.
waryaa xaarweyne udun do u understand that? mr al shabaaab khawaariji supporter who enjoys living gaalo country.

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Jaamac,
We are discussing the Food and Water Security Index reports in 2010 and what the reports say about the countries that are at extreme risk. These reports are issued by a respectable British risk analysis and rating firm that evaluates the risks to the supply of basic food staples for 163 countries and it is not something that I have invented in here. The past is gone and we are dealing with what is happening Somalia today when it comes to Food and Water. I am not sure how "adeero" going to "al cuurba nightclub" fits in here.

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WARYAA wahaabi qabiiliiste somalis is not facing food shortages thanks somali diaspora and money we send to somalia, more tha million somalis live middel east, Europe, North america, austalia ,
somalia is not on that list only thanks to those money we get from non islamic countres such as united state of america,swede, uk norwey, finland austalia.
waryaa xaarweyne udun do u understand that? mr al shabaaab khawaariji supporter who enjoys living gaalo country.

Yalaxoow,
We were making to the top list of the countries that were at extreme risk when it comes to food when all of these diaspora folks were still sending the money backhome. Let us get real and face the realities in the Somalia today. There is stability in overwhelming majority of the country, the last Gu' season was very good, UN Aid agencies have also confirmed that the rejection of WFP rotten food in the South and Central Somalia have helped, and the encouragement of self reliance policies have all contributed to local food output. These facts were all admited by the UN agencies themselves and it was all in the news. It is not Udun making it up.

With respect to the measurement of "xaar", boy it is not a debate that I want to get into. I left it to you. You keep measuring the size of your xaar. Just spare us telling us the size of your xaar

[Goljano Lion]

Udun
Since, they don’t have an accurate data from Somalia , how can they measure or predict food shortages about Somalia?

[DR-YALAXOOW]

Yalaxoow,
We were making to the top list of the countries that are at extreme risk when it comes to food when all of these diaspora folks were still sending the money backhome. Let us get real and face the realities in the Somalia today. There is stability in overwhelming majority of the country, the last Gu' season was very good, UN Aid agencies have also confirmed that the rejection of WFP rotten food in the South and Central Somalia have helped, and the encouragement of self reliance policies have all contributed to local food output. These facts were all admited by the UN agencies themselves and it was all in the news. It is not Udun making it up.

With respect to the measurement of "xaar", boy it is not a debate that I want to get into. I left it to you. You keep measuring the size of your xaar. Just spare us telling us the size of your xaar

your lying your self somalia its in worst shape when its comes security and stability. i myself from shabeelada dhexe walaahi today under khawaariji regime almost all people fled, there is no single development going on there, shabeelada dhexe was famous of farming. today there is no single farmers left near wabiga shabeelle jawhar.

as i said only think which people keeping them alive is the 100 dollars which relatives are sending from abroad. its same every were foraxample the biggest region of somalia SHABEELADA hooose. people live under big prison, daily fear, intimidation harassment from al shabaab gangesters. walaahi waa ramadaan one of best friends who come from qoryooleey shabeelada hoose he told me under khawaariji occupation in qoryooleey which was farming town before al shabaab today all activities of farming is no longar there and young people were recurited si xoog ah al shabaab and others dhalinyarada most of them fled the shabeelada hooose thanks to al shabaab.

about al shabaab propaganda WFP food rejection is just another big lei from khawaarijtis we all known that all over south somalia food donation from different help organizations including WFP is going on daily. jubadda hooose there is no secutiry from south of kismaayo to kenyan border war is going on there al shabaab agains axmed madoobe forces, so there is no peace what so ever there.

and you know hiiraaan is daily fighting between shabbaaab xisbil xaaraan vs TFG and too there is no peace out there.

people from south and central somalia are starving becouse of al shabaab,

loook gobolada al shabaab maamulaan

jubadda hoose=dagaal ayaa ka socda u dhaxeeya al shabaab vs axmed madoobe. kismaayo koonfur uma dhaafi kartid
shabeelada hoose=dadkii deganaa qaasatan dhalinyarada qafaaalka al shabaab ayey ka soo qaxeen xamar xaafadaha madiina xamarweyne ayey degan yihiin sababtoo ah al shabaab ayaa u qafaaleysa dagaalka ay kula jiraan TFG
shabeelada dhexe= marka laga reebo jawhar dhamaan tulooyinka ka heeraarsan dagaal ayaa ka socda al shabaab cidankooda cagta ma galin karaan.

hiiraan= baladweyne caasimada sanadkan kaliya 2010 wuxuu dagaal ka dhacey 8 jeeer una dhaxeeya xisbul sheeydaan vs shabaab ama xisbul sheeydaan vs TFG ama tfg vs al shabaab.

galgaduud= caasimada dhuuso mareeb waa nabad ilaa matabaan ilaa cabudwaaq thanks to ahlu sunnah.
inta kale AL SHABAAB ayaa ku nool wax nolol ahna kama jirto.

BAY iyo bakool = beelo baddan ka mid ah ugu danbeeysay WAAJID dagaal ayaa ka dhaca maalin waliba

MOGADISHU= dhamaan xaafadaha al shababa joogaan waa laga soo qaxey.

mogadishu waxaa dadka ku nool yihiin= madiina= under TFG
XAMARWEYNE=UNDER TFG
SHINGAANI=UNDER TFG
WAABERI=UNDER tfg
xamar jajab=under tfg
wardhiigleey part under tfg
boondheere part under tfg
shibis part under tfg

xamar dhamaan meelaha ay al shabaab joogaan dadkii waa ay isaga qaxeen nolol iyo waxbarasho kama jirto.

PUNTILAND=NABAD AYEEY AHEEYD ILAA AY AL SHABAAB BILAABAAN INAY DILAAAN DAD AAN WAXBA GALABSAN
SOMALILAND=NABAD BUUXDA DOWLAD SECULAR AH DADKEEDANA QUUDISA.

marka ii sheeg markaad orodeyso al shabaab maamulkeeda ayaa food and water secutiry somalia soo wanaajiyey? waxaas waa been abuur.

al shabaab xaalada somalia waa ay ka sii dartey. waxay geystay meeshii ugu xumeeyd an waligeed aysan soo marin

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Udun
Since, they don’t have an accurate data from Somalia , how can they measure or predict food shortages about Somalia?

Goljano,
I would advise you to read their reports. They, Maplecroft, have worked with many UN and other agencies when they were compiling the data.

[Basra-]

Udun aka Voltage---while i sympathise your intense patriotic love for your native country, i must demand u to quit it and move on. Talk about miami for a change.Thanks.

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Udun aka Voltage---while i sympathise your intense patriotic love for your native country, i must demand u to quit it and move on. Talk about miami for a change.Thanks.

Basra, first I am not Voltage so you blew it big time. Ok Sister, how can one move on and forget about the motherland?

It was not in Miami tough. All you did was to remember Florida. The place was Jacksonville and that little island that is close to it was Amelia Island.

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your lying your self somalia its in worst shape when its comes security and stability. i myself from shabeelada dhexe walaahi today under khawaariji regime almost all people fled, there is no single development going on there, shabeelada dhexe was famous of farming. today there is no single farmers left near wabiga shabeelle jawhar.

as i said only think which people keeping them alive is the 100 dollars which relatives are sending from abroad. its same every were foraxample the biggest region of somalia SHABEELADA hooose. people live under big prison, daily fear, intimidation harassment from al shabaab gangesters. walaahi waa ramadaan one of best friends who come from qoryooleey shabeelada hoose he told me under khawaariji occupation in qoryooleey which was farming town before al shabaab today all activities of farming is no longar there and young people were recurited si xoog ah al shabaab and others dhalinyarada most of them fled the shabeelada hooose thanks to al shabaab.

about al shabaab propaganda WFP food rejection is just another big lei from khawaarijtis we all known that all over south somalia food donation from different help organizations including WFP is going on daily. jubadda hooose there is no secutiry from south of kismaayo to kenyan border war is going on there al shabaab agains axmed madoobe forces, so there is no peace what so ever there.

and you know hiiraaan is daily fighting between shabbaaab xisbil xaaraan vs TFG and too there is no peace out there.

people from south and central somalia are starving becouse of al shabaab,

loook gobolada al shabaab maamulaan

jubadda hoose=dagaal ayaa ka socda u dhaxeeya al shabaab vs axmed madoobe. kismaayo koonfur uma dhaafi kartid
shabeelada hoose=dadkii deganaa qaasatan dhalinyarada qafaaalka al shabaab ayey ka soo qaxeen xamar xaafadaha madiina xamarweyne ayey degan yihiin sababtoo ah al shabaab ayaa u qafaaleysa dagaalka ay kula jiraan TFG
shabeelada dhexe= marka laga reebo jawhar dhamaan tulooyinka ka heeraarsan dagaal ayaa ka socda al shabaab cidankooda cagta ma galin karaan.

hiiraan= baladweyne caasimada sanadkan kaliya 2010 wuxuu dagaal ka dhacey 8 jeeer una dhaxeeya xisbul sheeydaan vs shabaab ama xisbul sheeydaan vs TFG ama tfg vs al shabaab.

galgaduud= caasimada dhuuso mareeb waa nabad ilaa matabaan ilaa cabudwaaq thanks to ahlu sunnah.
inta kale AL SHABAAB ayaa ku nool wax nolol ahna kama jirto.

BAY iyo bakool = beelo baddan ka mid ah ugu danbeeysay WAAJID dagaal ayaa ka dhaca maalin waliba

MOGADISHU= dhamaan xaafadaha al shababa joogaan waa laga soo qaxey.

mogadishu waxaa dadka ku nool yihiin= madiina= under TFG
XAMARWEYNE=UNDER TFG
SHINGAANI=UNDER TFG
WAABERI=UNDER tfg
xamar jajab=under tfg
wardhiigleey part under tfg
boondheere part under tfg
shibis part under tfg

xamar dhamaan meelaha ay al shabaab joogaan dadkii waa ay isaga qaxeen nolol iyo waxbarasho kama jirto.

PUNTILAND=NABAD AYEEY AHEEYD ILAA AY AL SHABAAB BILAABAAN INAY DILAAAN DAD AAN WAXBA GALABSAN
SOMALILAND=NABAD BUUXDA DOWLAD SECULAR AH DADKEEDANA QUUDISA.

marka ii sheeg markaad orodeyso al shabaab maamulkeeda ayaa food and water secutiry somalia soo wanaajiyey? waxaas waa been abuur.

al shabaab xaalada somalia waa ay ka sii dartey. waxay geystay meeshii ugu xumeeyd an waligeed aysan soo marin

YALAXOOW,

My brother in Islam, how are you gonna explain this:

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/afric ... 12123.html

Sprouting up in the fertile grounds of Southern Somalia, a pumper cereal crop expected to be the best in 7 years that is according to the UN Agencies working in the country. Good rains have helped to boost food production, that means about half a million less people needing food aid. But stability in the region has also helped raise output and for that Al-Shabaabs are claiming a credit. They control much of this country with their own strict interpretation of Sharia law.

"People were going to give up farming and wait for UN handouts, we wanted to encourage people to be self sufficient, so we asked the UN to buy their food from the farmers but they refused, so we stop their operations for our people's own good. As you can see the results is not what the UN expected." - Abduallah Moallam Mohamed, Deputy Governor of Bakool Region.

Whatever the real reasons for stopping the food aid, the effects have been to increase self sufficiency; There is a long way to go tough. One in five children in Southern Somalia is acutely malnourished according to the UN, that is highest rate in the world.

"We increased our crops and their prices went up. In the past we didn't get any income from corn or any other products but now people are farming again and this year's crops were abundant. " A farmer named Mohammed Boubao stated.

Al-Shabaab controls much of Somalia leaving the internationally recognized government herding to just a corner of the capital, Mogadishu. The US government regards Al-Shabaab as Al-Qaida's proxy in the region. While the urban areas remain dangerous and food prices high, rural areas are calmer, and for many Somalis that situation is preferable to previous 20 years where warlords and constant battles for supremacy ruled the land.

Bernard Smith reports.

Brother the "Boyz" have their own shorcomings but when it comes to security and encourging self sufficeincy, there is no entity in Somalia that can compete with them. Believe it or not secularism and heartless warlords have failed Somalia and whatever they do or did in the last 20 years could not compete with what the "Boyz" have done in just 2 years. I mean look at this:

""People were going to give up farming and wait for UN handouts, we wanted to encourage people to be self sufficient so we asked the UN to buy their food from the farmers but they refused, so we stop their operations for our people's own good. As you can see the results is not what the UN expected." - Abduallah Moallam Mohamed, Deputy Governor of Bakool Region. "

Tell me any other entity in Somalia that has similar policy?

The "Boyz" have other shortcomings but this is a challenging progress that no other entity can compete within our country. Keep in mind I am not saying they are perfect but I think reducing suffering and emphazing self sufficiency is definitely a good start. I hope they get out of Al-Qaeda nonsense, stop threatening other countries, and continue to improving the life of ordinary Somalis in the regions under their control.