Rome — "If we don't pay attention to this (crisis) now, this is going to cost a lot more, and be a lot worse in the future."
Farmers in drought-hit southern Africa urgently need help to plant the next harvest, or else the food crisis gripping the region will continue into 2017, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said on Thursday.
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