An estimated 11 million people in East and the Horn of Africa continue to face critical food shortages brought on by drought and non-natural factors, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said. "African agriculture appears to be in crisis, and the compounding effect of years of wars, uprising or coups, and civil strife are responsible for causing more hunger than the range of natural problems alone," according to the agency's latest bulletin.
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* Africa's food crisis - a systemic crisis
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/africa/2006/0131sistcrisis.htm