From WorldBank.

In a concerted push to revive agriculture and avert hunger in Ebola-hit countries, the World Bank Group has mobilized up to $15 million in emergency financing to provide a record 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.

More than 1 million people could go hungry unless they have reliable access to food and emergency measures are taken immediately to safeguard crop and livestock production.

A World Bank Group report shows that the Ebola crisis has taken a heavy toll on the economies in all three countries, and the agriculture and food sectors have been particularly hard hit.

The funds, in the form of grants financed by the International Development Association and the Ebola Recovery and Reconstruction Trust Fund will also be used to buy fertilizer required to multiply foundation seed to meet tight planting season deadlines and help lay the foundations for sustained recovery.

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