Introduction

The importance of timely and reliable agricultural production forecasts cannot be overemphasized in making informed food policy decisions and to allow for rapid response to emerging food shortfalls and market stabilization, especially in SSA, which is becoming increasingly vulnerable to high food prices and food insecurity crisis. The drivers of these high prices and food insecurity are both climatic and non-climatic and are often aggravated by subjective and unreliable agricultural production assessments and forecasting systems. An inaccurate and delayed agricultural production estimation often leads to bad and costly decisions and policies at national and regional levels, resulting in unnecessary human suffering and, at times, loss of lives.

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