Kenya - 2014 Short Rains Season Assessment, February 2015

The objective of the assessment was to evaluate the performance of the 2014 short rains season (October – December rains) and its impacts on various key sectors including water quality and access, crop and livestock production, health and nutrition, markets and trade and education . The assessment further sought to evaluate the manner and extent to which shocks such as conflicts, floods, crop diseases and high food prices, together with ongoing food and non-food interventions, were affecting food availability and household food access and gave a prognosis for food security situation in the next six months and recommendations for the current short term response required. Other contributing factors that were affecting food security including conflicts, markets operations, livestock and crop diseases were analysed and a food security prognosis done to provide recommendations for possible response options.