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Niger: Could You Feed Your Family on 64 Cents a Day?

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Niger: Could You Feed Your Family on 64 Cents a Day?
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(IRIN) After the news cameras are switched off and the world’s journalists leave Niger, what is almost certain is that next season the poor will again suffer the pain of hunger and the weakest children will die. The humanitarian crisis this season is as much an issue of the affordability of food as availability.

Let me repeat that: Niger has plenty of food. The problem is poverty.

Total grain production last year - though dipping below a five year average - was 22 percent more than the 2000/2001 season, a year in which “there was no major food security crisis”, noted a FEWS NET report.

What has changed this year is that in some parts of a southern belt sweeping from the border with Burkina Faso to Chad, food prices are critically high, while the value of livestock has crashed.

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