{"id":7557,"date":"2013-07-22T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2013-07-22T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T08:46:19","slug":"malawi-faces-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7557","title":{"rendered":"Malawi faces hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"malawihunger\"<\/a>Nearly 10 percent of Malawi’s 13 million people face hunger due of low yields of the main staple maize, prolonged dry spells and flooding, a report said.<\/p>\n

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“The total number of people who will not be able to meet their annual food requirement during the 2013\/14 consumption period is 1,461,940, representing 9.5 percent of national total population,” the Malawi Vulnerability Assessment Committee said.<\/p>\n

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The grouping of several government departments, the United Nations, embassies and humanitarian agencies said those affected will need assistance for a period of between two to five months.<\/p>\n

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The shortages will affect poor households in 21 districts of the southern African country.<\/p>\n

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Food shortage in this impoverished southern African country is often caused by drought and economic difficulties as wellas backward farming practices.<\/p>\n

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One in two Malawians lives on less than a dollar a day.<\/p>\n

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Malawi had a good food security record in recent years after late president Bingu wa Mutharika implemented a subsidy programme giving poor villagers access to fertilisers and inputs. – Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly 10 percent of Malawi’s 13 million people face hunger due of low yields of the main staple maize, prolonged dry spells and flooding, a report said. “The total number of people who will not be able to meet their annual food requirement during the 2013\/14 consumption period is 1,461,940, representing 9.5 percent of national … Continue reading “Malawi faces hunger”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[854,943,4120,2394,4119,127],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-africa","tag-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-hunger","tag-maize-crops","tag-malawi"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/malawihunger.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7560,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions\/7560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}