Des Moines – Financial aid and global co-ordination are needed to prevent the Ebola health care crisis from becoming a food emergency, agriculture ministers from West African nations at the centre of the Ebola epidemic said on Wednesday.
In Sierra Leone, where thousands are infected and more than 900 have died, 40% of the nation’s farmers have abandoned their fields, said Joseph Sam Sesay, minister of agriculture, forestry and food security.
The region of the country that grows coffee and cocoa beans has been struck hard by Ebola. About 90% of agricultural exports are grown there.
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