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Crop failure shows scale of food crisis
Source: Posted: 07-06-2008 at 02:00:23
| Age: AS THE food crisis hitting the world's poor forces food security onto the agenda at today's meeting of G8 leaders in Japan, across the world in Ethiopia it has taken its toll on their most common source of nutrition. Poor rainfall on already arid land has meant that last season's crop of teff, a cereal that is ground down to make a sour pancake-like dish called injera, has largely failed. World Vision aid worker Joseph Kamara said that was "a big, big blow to ... |
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