Key Highlights:

• The volatility in the exchange market continued to push most prices of agriculture inputs out of the reach of vulnerable farmers in some governorates, especially barley seed, nitrate and phosphate fertilizer, poultry and cattle feed, diesel fuel and some imported crop protection agro chemicals.
• Fuel shortages continue to persist in most governorates. This challenge contributes in raising the agricultural production costs and further worsened by the lack of electricity supply and intermittent gas shortages. 
• COVID-19 has continued to exacerbate further challenges among Syrian families in December 2020. According to Ministry of Health regular updates, the total number of infections registered in Syria was 11 033 as of 27 December 2020, including 5 141 recoveries and 678 fatalities. 
• New security incidents in southwest rural Deir Ez-Zor that were executed by ISIS on the Homs – Deir-ez-Zor road, affected the movement of different agriculture inputs and commodities.