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Drought a 'hidden risk' due to lack of data - UN

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"Drought remains a hidden risk" said Andrew Maskrey, the coordinator of the UN Global Assessment on Disaster Risk Reduction report, at its United Kingdom launch last week. "Because we don’t really have the figures on the risk, [including] whether it’s going up or down, it’s not really on anyone’s agenda with the sort of profile we think it merits."

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