22.5.2009
16:33
Another year without much food
HARARE - Zimbabwe is bracing for another year of food insecurity, amid bleak expectations from both the main maize harvest in April and the coming winter wheat crop.
The hunger season peaked in March, when about 7 million people - more than half the population - relied on donated food. An assessment of the national crop by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will be published in the first half of June.
"It [the harvest] is going
The hunger season peaked in March, when about 7 million people - more than half the population - relied on donated food. An assessment of the national crop by the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will be published in the first half of June.
"It [the harvest] is going
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