The Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa — Financial aid and global coordination are needed to prevent the Ebola health care crisis from becoming a food emergency, agriculture ministers from West African nations at the center of the Ebola outbreak said on Oct. 15.
In Sierra Leone, where thousands are infected and more than 900 have died, 40 percent of the farmers have abandoned their fields, said Joseph Sam Sesay, minister of agriculture, forestry and food security.
Coffee and cocoa beans amount to about 90 percent of the country's agricultural exports, and the region where they are grown has been struck. . .
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