Guatemala Drought Threatens Hunger in Rural Areas
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Thousands of underfed children could face starvation if rains do not bring relief to drought-ravaged regions of Guatemala soon, government officials and aid agencies said on Friday.
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Thousands are going hungry in the Andean mountain region of southern Peru, says the World Food Programme.
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Every 100th baby born in Guatemala grows up as an adopted American, making the Central American country the richest source of adoptees in the Western Hemisphere. But U.S. ratification of an international adoption treaty is likely to choke off the supply next summer.
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The blockade in the central Ogaden region of Ethiopia puts hundreds of thousands of people at risk of starvation, Western diplomats and humanitarian officials say.
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An estimated 3 million fish have suffocated in a reservoir in southern Colombia, where a four-month drought has drastically drained water levels, leaving too little oxygen to sustain dozens of hatcheries.
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MOULAMEIN, Australia  - A thin winter green carpets Australia's southeast hills and plains, camouflaging the onset of a drought catastrophe in the nation's food bowl.
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BOWARA, Central African Republic  - Driven from their homes by armed raiders, terrified villagers in northwest Central African Republic say they are surviving in the bush eating roots, fruit and leaves.
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John Vidal reports on why food prices are rising and the developing world is facing catastrophe
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Sudan's Darfur region, already engulfed in a conflict that has forced 1.8 million people to flee their homes, faces a new threat &#151; a drought that has all but wiped out this year's harvest, the top U.S. aid official says.
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KOUTS, Ind.  -- The quiet country life can turn into a pressure cooker of stress at harvest time as farmers push themselves to their limits, agricultural experts say...
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Poor harvests caused by bad weather could hurt farmers more than the foot-and-mouth outbreak, the government's rural adviser warns.
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Crops damaged by recent wet weather are being left to rot because it is too wet to harvest them, farmers say.
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More than 12 million American families either didn't have enough food or worried about someone in the family going hungry last year, the Agriculture Department said Friday.
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NAWEET, Uganda  - Drought cycles are coming more often to northeastern Uganda: every two years instead of every five.
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Thousands of Mozambicans who have been forced to leave their homes by severe flooding will need food aid for months to come after their crops were destroyed, the World Food Programme has said.
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The World Food Program said Thursday that it is racing against time to deliver food to some 600,000 needy Afghans in villages that will soon be cut off by heavy winter snow.
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Extreme rains, interspersed with droughts, could spell disaster for the country's agriculture-based economy, according to research spanning five decades of data.