Ebola Update - Noon Briefing (12 February 2015)

United Nations - Ebola Update by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General.
EBOLA
Turning to Ebola, the World Bank announced today it had mobilized up to $15 million in emergency financing to provide 10,500 tons of maize and rice seed to more than 200,000 farmers in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, in time for the April planting season.
As you know, those countries were the three hardest-hit countries in terms of the Ebola outbreak.
According to the latest estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Programme, more than one million people could go hungry unless they have reliable access to food.
Movement restrictions have severely dented farmers’ ability to harvest crops, market produce, prepare fields for planting and maintain a steady supply of seed for planting in the next season.
Reports show that desperate farming families have resorted to eating stored seed originally intended for use in the next cropping cycle, while rural flight has caused harvest-ready crops to wither in the fields.
More information is available from the World Bank.
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