SciDevNet: Food shortages brought on by extreme weather events have resulted in almost a quarter of Sri Lanka’s 21 million people becoming malnourished, says a World Food Programme (WFP) document.
“The increased frequency of natural disasters such as drought and flash floods further compounds food and nutrition insecurity,’ says the document, the latest WFP country brief for Sri Lanka, released in June.
As per WFP’s most recent Cost of Diet Analysis, almost 6.8 million (33 per cent) Sri Lankans cannot…

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