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FAO: El Niño causing a "food and agriculture crisis"
07.07.2016 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of yesterday, while opening a FAO Conference examining the global impact of El Niño, the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) Director-General
Jose Graziano da Silva said the El Niño weather phenomenon is causing a «food and agriculture crisis» around the world that is likely to deepen in the years ahead, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, government representatives, partner UN agencies, food security experts and regional bodies, together with international donors, attended the Conference, looking at the challenges posed by the two-year long weather pattern that has caused some of the worst droughts in decades.
Reportedly, the FAO chief said that around 100 million people could be affected by 2016 end, with southern Africa facing its worst water shortages within 35 years.
As to him, over 39 million people are projected to be food insecure, across southern and eastern Africa alone.
«The impact of the drought on agricultural livelihood has been enormous. In fact El Niño has caused primarily, a food and agriculture crisis. If we work in a coordinated manner, we can make a difference. And we need to do it because of the impacts we are seeing of climate change, and I think that El Niño last year and this year, is just the beginning,» da Silva emphasized.
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