The Ebola Crisis May Become a Food Crisis

Friday, August 29, 2014
By Paul Martin

Vice.com
August 28, 2014

Every day we seem to be confronted with another piece of startling news surrounding the ebola outbreak, which could now, sources say, could eventually exceed 20,000 cases and has so far left more than 1,500 deaths in its wake.

The latest bulletins suggest that international organisations are getting ready to act on an impending food crisis in ebola-stricken Guinea and Sierra Leone, as well as Liberia—a country already in the midst of a humanitarian crisis—because areas that are quarantined will not only be unable to be harvested by farmers, but will also become unable to accommodate exports or imports, even though blockades had previously been lifted.

A spokeswoman for the World Food Program told The Washington Post that “a health crisis will become a food crisis.”

Rather than the disease itself, it appears that, in the areas that are quarantined, it’s food shortage that is causing immediate concern. “People are saying: ‘We’re not afraid of dying from Ebola, we’re starving,’” said Jean-Alexandre Scaglia, a representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Liberia.

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