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The 2005 Malawi food crisis is a severe food security crisis affecting more than five million people in Malawi, especially in the south, caused by the failure to harvest sufficient staple maize due to a drought. Malawi produced just 1.25 million tons or 37 percent of the 3.4 million tons of maize required to feed its people. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ongoing events • Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal • Atlantic hurricane season • Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak in Asia • Bali bombings investigation • California wildfires • UK Conservative Party leadership election • DeLay political financing scandal • Dengue outbreak in Singapore • FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ... Food security is a term used in development and humanitarian aid. ... Binomial name Zea mays L. Maize (Zea mays ssp. ... A drought is an extended period where water availability falls below the statistical requirements for a region. ...

The World Food Program warned that the number of most vulnerable people was more than five million, and the United Nations is calling for a major increase in aid to the region. In August the United Nations appealed for US $88 million donation to Malawi; as of October 7, 2005, only $15 million have been pledged. The World Food Programme (WFP) is an agency of the United Nations which distributes food commodities to support development projects, to long-term refugees and displaced persons and as emergency food assistance in situations of natural and man-made disasters. ... Jump to: navigation, search The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... Jump to: navigation, search The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945. ... October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). ...

International aid is also needed to help build an irrigation system. Currently only 2 percent of cultivated land is irrigated, and the government is trying to increase irrigation to reduce reliance on rainfall. Irrigation in the Heart of the Sahara Irrigation (in agriculture) is the replacement or supplementation of rainfall with water from another source in order to grow crops. ...

SOS Children is running an emergency program in Lilongwe and Mzuzu [1] SOS Childrens Villages is a large international charitable group dedicated to the care of orphaned and abandoned children. ... Lilongwe, estimated population 440,500 (2003), is the capital of Malawi. ... Mzuzu is the capital of Malawis Northern region and the third largest city in the country, with a population of 119,592 (2003). ...

President Bingu wa Mutharika declared a national disaster on October 15. President Bingu wa Mutharika addressing the United Nations General Assembly. ... A state of emergency is a governmental declaration that may suspend certain normal functions of government, may work to alert citizens to alter their normal behaviors, or may order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans. ... Jump to: navigation, search October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ...

External links

• UNICEF:Food crisis in Malawi compounded by HIV/AIDS
• African countries currently in crises