A crisis is brewing in the West African state of Niger: almost 400,000 children are in danger of severe sickness and death as a result of a prolonged food shortage. Another 2.1 million children are at high risk of following along the same path.The current food crisis in Niger is reducing children and animals to mere sacks of bones. In desperation, some villagers in this country of subsistence farming have turned to “survival foods” – grass and leaves.
