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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Worst drought in 16 years threatens food supplies in North Korea – UN (Reuters)

July 21, 2017


The Thomson Reuters Foundation published an article on food security in North Korea, which highlighted the Global Hunger Index. The country is facing severe food shortages because of an extreme drought. The article cites the GHI findings that in 2016 two in every five people in North Korea were undernourished. The article ran in 17 other publications including major outlets such as The Irish Times, MSN, UK’s The Daily Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, and CGTN

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