Syria's interim government warns of food shortage
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Syria's interim government on Thursday called on international donors to help stave off a food crisis in the country where drought and civil war have caused a dramatic drop in wheat production this year.
The United Nations predicted earlier this year that Syria's wheat harvest could hit a record low of between 1.7 million and 2 million tons, some 50 percent below averages recorded between 2001 and 2011.
"While the bombardments are going on ... there is a very, very severe problem right now upcoming, and no one talks about that," Abrahim Miro, finance minister of the interim government, said in Istanbul.
