FAO Director-General visits hunger-threatened northeastern Nigeria, calls for urgent increase in humanitarian assistance

It is imperative to immediately ramp up humanitarian assistance to hunger-threatened rural communities in the strife-torn Lake Chad Basin region, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said today during a visit to some of the affected areas in northeastern Nigeria. “If we miss the coming planting season, there will be no substantial harvests until 2018. […]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Appa-sourceTheAfric...