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Karamoja food insecurity may worsen.

    NAIROBI
    The OCHA report said that while there were areas which had average harvests, many households had experienced “complete crop failure” attributed to poor rains or pests “which if not controlled could affect the whole area”. It quoted USAID’s Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) and WFP as saying tick-borne diseases in Jie and Dodoth counties of Kotido district could adversely affect the usual coping mechanisms. So far, the bumper harvest of last year was offsetting the gravity of the current food situation. It was expected, however, that as the season progressed food insecurity would become more acute and prices would rise. The May-August 2000 pre-harvest lean season “will be particularly precarious”.

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