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El Niño and fighting leave 80 million in food crisis
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- Conflicts in places such as Syria and Yemen have led to food shortages
- El Niño has caused severe droughts in Africa, Asia and the Americas
- A total of 240 million people are in ‘food stress’
Armed conflict and the droughts caused by the El Niño effect have left 80 million people around the world in acute food crisis this year, reveals afood security report.
The report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme adds that a total of 240 million people are in food stress.
This corresponds to level two on a five-level international classification of food insecurity; food crisis is level three and famine is level five.
The situation is more serious than in previous years, coauthor François Kayitakire tells SciDev.Net. “Ethiopia, for example, was relatively fine in 2015,” he says. “But this year there are ten million people who are in food crisis, in the most severe drought in decades.”
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