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Crop-eating caterpillar to worsen South Sudan's hunger woes - U.N. [1]

- An infestation of fall armyworm, a crop-eating caterpillar that has ravaged fields across Africa, will deepen hunger in famine-threatened South Sudan, a U.N. official said on Wednesday.

Publication Date: 
20/07/2017
Thompson Reuters Foundation (TRUST) [2]
Tags:
Agriculture [3], Crop Pests [4], Food Security [5], Sudan [6], Famine [7], Africa [8], FAO [9]

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[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/thompson-reuters-foundation-trust
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/crop-pests
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/sudan
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/famine
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/africa
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fao