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THE United Nations marked World Food Day today by warning that the Ebola epidemic in west Africa could spark a major food crisis.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said it needed to reach 1.3 million people needing food aid in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, as residents quit their farms to flee the danger zone and food prices spiral.
International Fund for Agricultural Development president Kanayo Nwanze has said that in the worst-hit areas 40 per cent of farms have been abandoned.
WFP regional director for west Africa Denise Brown said: “We need to reach the smallest villages in the most remote locations.
“Indications are that things will get worse before they get better. How much worse depends on us all.”
So far the agency has provided food to 534,000 people.
And World Health Organisation director of global capacities, alert and response Dr Isabelle Nuttall warned that the number of cases of Ebola was doubling every four weeks.
