Even with a relatively good harvest there is not enough food in the country to sustain all the people who need it.

These assessments continue to show us that even if there's a relatively good harvest, there is not enough food in the country to sustain all the people who need food.

The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.

We're appealing to donors to come through very quickly now with additional resources, because floods are not something that we can work on a few weeks later when bureaucracies are done making decisions ... we have to help people today.

Large amounts of food aid and humanitarian assistance have been delivered but the low level of commercial food imports and limited agricultural output are jeopardizing the nutritional stability of the whole population -- especially women, children and the elderly.

An escalation of fighting will strike a deadly blow to thousands of extremely fragile people.