The number of people threatened by food insecurity in the Ebola-affected region in West Africa could jump from 500,000 to 1 million by March 2015, Devex has learned.
The U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization raised the alarm during a meeting in Brussels on Thursday, where the general sentiment was that beyond the immediate health crisis, a new danger is looming.
“We are very worried about the consequences the Ebola crisis is having on food security and the whole agricultural sector,” Dominique Bourgeon, director of FAO’s emergency and rehabilitation division, told Devex in Brussels, where he took part in a meeting of the Network for Prevention of Food Crises with the European Commission.
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Diederik Kramers@DiederikKramers
Diederik Kramers is a freelance correspondent in Brussels covering EU and NATO affairs. A former spokesperson and communications officer for UNICEF and UNHCR, he previously worked as foreign desk and Eastern Europe editor for the Dutch press agency ANP and as editor-in-chief of the Dutch quarterly Ukraine Magazine.