The United Nations Office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator says that Zimbabwe faces rising food shortages as drought, exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern worsens.

The strong El Nino episode has raised serious concerns regarding the impact on food insecurity, with harvests badly affected by drought conditions, raising the spectre of massive production declines of key cereal crops such as maize.

This emerged at a multi-stakeholders meeting, jointly hosted by the Office of the President and Cabinet and the United Nations System in Zimbabwe last week.

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