FORMER Zambia Medical Association (ZMA) president Dr Crispin Moyo says the country needs to come up with measures to provide high protein food supplements to avert hunger and malnutrition. Commenting on the impact of drought, Dr Moyo said there would be hunger in areas where people relied on their farm produce to sustain them to the next rainy season. “Zambia is one of the countries that has been hit by severe to extreme drought conditions and as a result of low rainfall in most parts of the country, this widespread low rainfall has resulted in massive crop failure and for both commercial and subsistence farmers. With low rainfall, we also expect increased dryness, and as a result of that, there...

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