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Home > Tanzania: Sharp increase in crop prices threatens food security, agency warns

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Thursday, November 6, 2003 - 02:00
Categories: 
Environment [2]
Issue Number: 
131 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET), a USAID-funded activity, has warned that access to food by poor households in Tanzania's rural and urban areas is becoming increasingly difficult because of high crop prices, particularly that of maize, the country's staple.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/environment/18119 [5]
Country: 
Tanzania [6]

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