Johannesburg — A combination of factors including escalating maize prices has almost doubled the number of people in need of food aid to more than 800,000 in Mozambique in the past six months, a food security official told IRIN.
"The findings of our survey indicate that maize prices in some of the drought-affected districts have risen by more than 100 percent," said Marcela Libombo, coordinator of Mozambique's Technical Secretariat for Food Security and Nutrition (SETSAN).
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