After cyclone and cholera, Mozambique now battles hunger
5 years, 9 months ago

After cyclone and cholera, Mozambique now battles hunger

Associated Press  

BOPIRA, Mozambique — Mozambique’s first disaster was a cyclone. Such a “second harvest” normally accounts for just 10 percent of annual food production, the United Nations’ World Food Program said. That season will start “atypically early in August” and continue into early 2020, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network said over the weekend, adding that local seed prices could rise. On Monday the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization with partners is expected to begin distributing more than 180 tons of “second harvest” seeds, plus tools, to some 18,000 subsistence farming households, the U.N. humanitarian agency said Sunday. “We are in urgent need of food assistance, especially seeds,” said Moises Mukoto, a local chief near Dombe.

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