Ondanks het gewas van de bumperkorrel, 33 landen in voedselcrisis: De V.N.

AFP

Ondanks projecties van een gewas van de bumperkorrel dit jaar, zullen 33 landen genoeg voedsel, met Irak en Zimbabwe onder de hardste klap, de het voedselagentschap bovengenoemde Dinsdag van de V.N. niet hebben.

De landen met „wijdverspreid gebrek aan toegang tot voedsel“ omvatten Afghanistan, Noord-Korea, Eritrea, Ethiopië, Haïti, Liberia, Mauretanië, Nepal, Niger en Sierra Leone, volgens de kwestie van April van het rapport van het Voedsel van de Organisaties van het Voedsel en van de Landbouw de „Vooruitzichten van het Gewas en van de Situatie“.

Hardest hit, with an “exceptional shortfall” in food production and supplies, are Iraq, Lesotho, the Philippines, Swaziland and Zimbabwe, the FAO said.

In eastern Africa, millions “still depend on food assistance … due to a combination of factors including conflict and adverse weather conditions,” it said.

In southern Africa, preliminary forecasts suggest a below-average maize yield similar to that of 2006, the statement said, although prospects vary from country to country.

Prospects are good overall in Latin America and the Caribbean, except for in Bolivia, where severe weather, ranging from torrential rains to drought, has caused extensive losses to agriculture, livestock and other assets.

World cereal production is forecast to increase by 4.3 percent to a record two billion tonnes, the Rome-based agency said.

“The bulk of the increase is expected in maize, (and) a significant rise in wheat output is also foreseen, with a recovery in some major exporting countries after weather problems last year,” it said.

About half of the increase — some 41 million tonnes — will come from the production of “coarse grains,” mainly maize, in North and South America to meet surging demand for ethanol fuel, the FAO study found.

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