ZIMBABWE: Three-quarters of the people need food aid
JOHANNESBURG , 29 January 2009 (IRIN): Nearly seven million Zimbabweans will require emergency food aid in February and March 2009 – about 75 percent of the resident population – the UN World Food Programme (WFP) told IRIN.
The sharp increase in the number of emergency food aid beneficiaries is a consequence of an economic collapse that was quicker than anticipated, and has come on the back of a series of poor harvests in a country that a decade ago was regarded as the breadbasket of Southern Africa.
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