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            UN: 34 Countries Don't Have Enough Food for Their People

   by VOA News

   A report released Wednesday by the U.N. agriculture agency said 34
   countries around the world, nearly all of them in Africa, do not have
   enough food to feed their people and need help.

   The number has risen since December's report with the addition of
   Swaziland.

   The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report blamed the food
   shortages on drought caused by the weather phenomenon known as El
   Niño, along with floods in other places and wars.

   The report said the El Niño drought had "sharply reduced" crop
   production expectations this year in southern Africa, Central America
   and the Caribbean.

   Fighting in such places as Syria, Yemen and Somalia is making bad
   growing conditions even worse. Poor crop conditions in North Korea are
   adding to the already desperate conditions in that dictatorship, where
   the U.N. report said "most households were already estimated to have
   borderline or poor food consumption."

   The report said crop conditions for 2016 have been generally favorable
   in the Northern Hemisphere, and it forecast large wheat crops for most
   Asian countries.
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