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Southern African Crisis

December 2002

Zambian cereal crop decline forecast

12/30/2002 Poor rainfall could see cereal production in Zambia's southern region decline by at least 60 percent in comparison with the 2000 harvest, according to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network.

Southern Africa drought warning issued

12/16/2002 Following weeks of concern over low rainfall in Southern Africa, a drought warning is issued by the region's Drought Monitoring Centre.

Further grain price rises forecast

12/13/2002 An increasing number of households in Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia, as well as parts of Lesotho, Swaziland and Mozambique, will go short of food as a result of rising cereal prices, the United States Agency for International Development warns.

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Related: [Southern Africa] [Food]

US blames African famine on government policies

12/05/2002 Much of the responsibility for famine in Africa falls on government policies, the United States tells the United Nations Security Council.

Image: Cattle carcasses during a previous Ethiopian crisis © Rachel Stabb / Oxfam Great Britain

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Background

Exploring what causes famine

(01/16/2003)

Floods, drought and conflict are among the many factors contributing to the complexity of widespread famine in Southern Africa, according to this gathering of research undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies over the past two years.

WFP's Africa Hunger Alert campaign

(12/16/2002)

The United Nations World Food Programme's Africa Hunger Alert campaign, is aimed at drawing international attention to the unprecedented crisis gripping the continent where 38 million people face starvation.

GM food aid dossier

(10/28/2002)

Attention increasingly focuses on diplomatic wrangling over whether the recipients of aid should accept unsegregrated genetically modified grain.

UNICEF update

(10/24/2002)

The United Nations Children's Fund's 23 October update on the crisis.

Famine 'real and growing'

(09/15/2002)

At the core of the famine threat are drought, poor harvests, lack of resources for long-term health and food security issues, poor political decisions and the effects of global recession.

The UN's role

(08/11/2002)

Wide areas of Southern Africa are in deep crisis as the World Food Programme struggles to ensure adequate supplies in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Complex causes

Angolan children queue for food

(07/22/2002)

Unpredictable weather patterns, including floods and droughts, have caused crop failures. The situation has been made worse by political and economic factors, leaving people without food, and without seeds to plant new crops.

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