More than 10 million people in southern Africa-Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swazilan, Zambia, and Zimbabwe-are currently threatened with famine, with the crisis being particularly severe in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The immediate causes of the food shortage, namely of maize, the region's staple crop, are drought, flooding, and low levels of planting. However, what has made these countries so vulnerable to famine is chronic poverty, inadequate development...
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2003/03/01
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Mitigating the food crisis in Southern Africa : from relief to development
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Rural and Social Development
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Babu,Suresh Chandra.
Mitigating the food crisis in Southern Africa : from relief to development (English). Africa Region findings ; no. 224 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/547641468179070550