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El Nio and fighting leave 80 million in food crisis
2016-05-23 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Armed conflict and the droughts caused by the El Nio effect have left 80 million people around the world in acute food crisis this year, reveals a food security report. The report by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme adds that a total of 240 million people are in food stress. This corresponds to level two on a five-level international classification of food insecurity; food crisis is level three and famine is level five....
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