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Cassava Virus Another Threat to Food Security in East Africa

March 1, 2013

A new disease is threatening food security and livelihood in East Africa. In a news release Wednesday Nov. 16 2011, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization expressed alarm at the growing cassava brown streak disease in the region — saying it is on the verge of becoming an epidemic — and called for increased funding, research and surveillance to contain it. For more on this worrying situation, click on Cassava Virus Another Threat to Food Security in East Africa.

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