UN Chief: Food Crisis Is Now Emergency

UNITED NATIONS (AP)

He called for short-term emergency measures in many regions to meet urgent food needs and avoid starvation and longer-term efforts to significantly increase production of food grains.

WFP, the world’s largest humanitarian agency, issued an “extraordinary emergency appeal” to donor countries for $500 million last month, saying the money was needed by May 1 to avoid cutting rations to some of the world’s most impoverished regions. The Rome-based agency said its funding gap was growing weekly.

Associated Press