81.   The North already is facing a food crisis following disastrous flooding last year.

82.   The North, admitting for the first time that it faced a food crisis, asked Japan last month for emergency food supplies.

83.   The Red Cross began distributing aid Saturday in Sierra Leone, where chaos following a military coup has created a food crisis.

84.   The Socialist government of Premier Zhan Videnov on Wednesday survived a confidence vote lodged by opposition parties claiming a food crisis is looming.

85.   The United Nations recently announced the first deaths in the two-year food crisis.

86.   The survey also showed that up to a quarter of all Malawian children under the age of five will be severely malnourished because of the food crisis.

87.   The U.N. World Food Program said Friday that an end to the food crisis in Kosovo has prompted it to close down its operations there.

88.   The World Bank and the U.N. agriculture agency are ignoring an impending global food crisis and consistently overestimating world food production, a Worldwatch report charged Wednesday.

89.   The World Food Program had already beefed up its presence in North Korea because of a food crisis following disastrous flooding last year.

90.   These regions have historically experienced severe bouts of food crises.