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FAO Global Watch archive 1998
- Last Africa Report of 1998
warns of major food crisis in Somalia
(22 December 1998)
- Latest Food Outlook finds
cereal production less than expected
(30 November 1998)
- North Korea still needs food
aid, despite improved harvests
(25 November 1998)
- Floods in Bangladesh cut rice
harvest by more than 2 million tonnes
(20 November 1998)
- FAO report warns of a "tough
winter" for vulnerable people in the Russian
Federation
(20 November 1998)
- Special Alert begins to add up
agricultural devastation after hurricane Mitch
(11 November 1998)
- Rice harvests down and prices
up in Indonesia
(23 October 1998)
- Hurricane Georges thwarts
hopes of economic recovery in much of the
Caribbean
(22 October 1998)
- Monitoring prospects for world
food security
(7 October 1998)
- Latest report on foodcrop
shortages shows 30 countries in need of emergency
assistance
(7 October 1998)
- Global cereal stocks remain
within safe levels despite drop, but effects of floods in
Asia still uncertain
(18 September 1998)
- Food and humanitarian crisis
looms in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(8 September 1998)
- Famine conditions reported in
parts of Sudan, although harvest prospects are favourable
elsewhere in East Africa
(25 August 1998)
- 1998 cereal harvest in
Afghanistan expected to reach 20-year high, although need
for emergency aid remains
(31 July 1998)
- Millions of Indonesians could
fall below the poverty line in 1998, says Special
Alert
(27 July 1998)
- Food crisis in Korea DPR
expected to worsen, according to mission report
(2 July 1998)
- Zambia's staple crop
production hard hit by El Niño - international
assistance required (24 June 1998)
- FAO forecasts replenishment of
world cereal stocks to minimum safe levels
(24 June 1998)
- Food crisis continues in Korea
DPR, according to recent mission
(18 June 1998)
- Ten million people in Brazil
suffering from El Niño-related drought
(1 June 1998)
- Food situation worsens in
southern Sudan as civil conflict escalates
(26 May 1998)
- List of countries needing
emergency assistance rises to 38, food situation critical
in southern Sudan
(7 May 1998)
- El Niño threat hangs
over 1998 global cereal production, according to latest
FAO report (28 April 1998)
- Sub-Saharan Africa's cereal
import requirements up from last year
(28 April 1998)
- Drought and financial crisis
leave Indonesia facing record food deficit
(24 April 1998)
- Burundi: farmers return to
their fields, but shortage of inputs and adverse weather
cut yields
(3 April 1998)
- No drought so far in southern
Africa, but cereal import requirements are forecast to
rise 30 percent
(3 April 1998)
- Civil strife in Republic of
Congo disrupts food supplies in Brazzaville
(25 March 1998)
- Food stocks run dangerously
low in Korea DPR, warns Special Alert
(25 March 1998)
- Special Alert warns of
disruption to food supplies in Kosovo Province, Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
(20 March 1998)
- Near record number of
countries face food supply problems and world cereal
stocks remain below safe levels, according to latest FAO
report
(12 March 1998)
- Drought-reduced harvest
threatens food security in Indonesia
(26 February 1998)
- Special News Alert: Sierra
Leone
- (26 February 1998)
- Emergency assistance needed in
Eastern Africa following months of heavy rains linked to
El Niño
(13 February 1998)
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