This Cross Border Staple Food Trade Monitoring Bulletin is prepared by the Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa– ACTESA (A Specialised Agency of COMESA) with funding from the AWorld Food Programme. The report is based on data collected by a network of cross border monitors based at selected active border points in Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The cross border monitors record data on a regular basis, and transmit it to a central location for collation and analysis. Currently, the informal cross border trade monitoring system includes 29 borders. ACTESA has since March 2011, been collaborating with the World Food Programme (WFP) and the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) on this initiative.