Droughts Increasingly Drive Need for Food
From Times Wire Reports
The United Nations’ food aid is increasingly going to people suffering because of droughts, which last year spread to more than 20 countries and affected 100 million people, according to statistics released by the U.N. World Food Program. The number of drought-affected people the program feeds soared to 16 million last year from 3 million in 1996. Program officials say that in the next two decades, nearly half the world’s population will live in countries with water shortages.
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