Over four million to face food shortages in Zimbabwe early 2008
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The number of people facing serious food shortages in Zimbabwe is expected to grow to 4.1 million over the first quarter of next year, the Canadian ambassador to the African country said on Wednesday.
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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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HIV and AIDS are expected to kill 16 million farmworkers in southern Africa by 2010, with severe implications for agricultural production and food security.
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Zimbabwe's main bread producer warns it only has two days' supply of flour, according to state media.
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Zimbabweâs population is falling as its economy fails, and South Africans face new competition for jobs and housing.
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For the first time in nine years, the estimated number of people going hungry around the world has increased, reversing a trend and raising new questions about global inequities.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq is suffering a shortage of state-supplied wheat, sugar, and rice because of logistics and security problems, officials and traders said yesterday.
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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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Huge price increases for bread, electricity and meat drove Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate to 1,593.6 percent, the Central Statistical Office was quoted Tuesday as saying.
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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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Zimbabwe's main bakery said yesterday that bread shortages would worsen after closing one of its biggest outlets due to a lack of wheat.
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Business & money: UK Households are expected to splash out record breaking Â£4.25bn in supermarkets on festive food
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The United Nations warns of food shortages. Hospitals refuse all non-emergency care to avoid running out of medicine. Power outages are widespread, and a lack of fuel for generators threatens water supplies.
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with sudden and severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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Southern Africa faces major challenges to feed its swelling populations and to keep its wells from running dry, a study showed Wednesday.
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A parliamentary committee in Zimbabwe has summoned the country's central bank chief to explain current nationwide cash shortages, a state daily reported on Tuesday.
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NAIROBI, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The World Food Program (WFP) has said it was gearing up for a &quot;critical stage&#39;&#39; in delivering food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people affected by conflictin the western Sudanese region of Darfur.