1.  The latest deluge comes only one year after floods wiped out the harvest, leading to widespread food shortages.

2.  There have been mounting reports in recent months of widespread food shortages.

3.  Though prices have risen, the widespread food shortages that were predicted earlier this year have not materialized.

4.  A prolonged drought has destroyed crops and fueled wildfires throughout Malaysia, bringing hazardous haze and widespread food shortages in parts of Sabah and Sarawak states on Borneo.

5.  An unusual shortage of rain threatens widespread food shortages in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. food agency said.

6.  Communist North Korea, now in its fourth year of widespread food shortages, needs aid to repair its ruined economy.

7.  Experts now fear that there will be widespread food shortages because emergency food stocks have not been maintained.

8.  Hit by five years of floods and drought, as well as ongoing economic mismanagement, North Korea is dependent on outside aid to ease widespread food shortages.

9.  In the fourth-year of widespread food shortages and with its economy in ruins, North Korea is in desperate need of fertilizer to boost summer crops.

10.  Mufia Jamal, a government official, said widespread food shortages in the Monapo district had affected the prison.