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North Korea Faces Serious Food Shortages And Undernourishment
About five million people living in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) will continue to face food shortages despite a relatively good harvest and a slight increase in food supply, a joint report by FAO and WFP has said.
Uganda Preparing to Host 5th Agriculture Statistics Conference
The Fifth International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS-V) will take place from October 12-15 2010 in Kampala, Uganda.
Regional Agriculture Mission Winds Up Two-day Discussions in Lesotho
The head of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Martin Bwalya left Lesotho Wednesday after leading a mission to the country that was aimed at supporting the implementing of the CAADP agenda.
Fears in Madagascar of Another Locust Plague
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned of an “imminent and severe threat from the increasing number of swarms of Migratory Locusts” in Madagascar, requiring “immediate response assistance to prevent a humanitarian...
MADAGASCAR: Drought, Cyclones, Political Crisis And Now Locusts
Swarms of locusts have been forming in the South Madagascar for months threatening the livelihoods of hundreds and thousands of Malagasy and if a major control campaign is not set up quick infestations could reach “plague proportions,” the...
Food Production Increases, But Not Enough for the Population of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe’s production of maize, its staple food, has improved “significantly”, but the country is still food insecure and about 1.68 million people will require assistance in the first quarter of 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization...
ZIMBABWE: A Third of Children Chronically Malnourished
Tinashe, a single mother of three living in Mbare township in Harare, the Zimbabwean capital, regularly misses a meal so as to stretch her $90 a month income, and occasionally gives her children food left over from her employers’ meals at the middle-class...
In Brief: Drought ‘getting Worse’ in Southern Vietnam
Showers at the end of April offered relief from the drought across swathes of Vietnam’s northern Red River Delta and central region, but other parts of the country continue to suffer.
