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Zimbabwe: Less food for more mouths
JOHANNESBURG: The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is moving into top gear this month to feed four million Zimbabweans, but severe funding shortages mean the organisation's coffers are beginning to run on empty, which has caused a cut in rations to below the minimum dietary recommendations.
"Many of the beneficiaries will get less than the recommended monthly calorie amount, and many of the beneficiaries will not be in such a well-nourished condition as we had hoped for by the end of November," WFP spokesman Richard Lee told IRIN.
