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As drought slashes rice harvest, 900,000 face hunger in Sri Lanka [1]

The worst drought in five years has pushed 900,000 people in Sri Lanka into "acute food insecurity", the World Food Programme (WFP) says.

Publication Date: 
14/03/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST) [2]
Tags:
Natural Disasters [3], Droughts [4], Food Security [5], Rice [6], Agriculture [7], Sri Lanka [8], South Asia [9], World Food Programme (WFP) [10]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/thompson-reuters-foundation-trust
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-disasters
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/droughts
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rice
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sri-lanka
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/south-asia
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/world-food-programme-wfp