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Philippines: Typhoon impacts a million farmers

2013-11-12 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Over one million farmers in the Philippines have been impacted by Typhoon Haiyan according to the UN. The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says that hundreds of thousands of hectares of rice have been destroyed. Coconut plantations which are a big earner of foreign currency were said to be "completely flattened". Fishing communities have also be severely affected with the storm destroying boats and gear. The FAO says they have arrived at the figure of farmers affected by looking...

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