Correction to This Article
CLARIFICATION -- A May 10 report on food shortages in southern Africa misrepresented a remark made by Kerran Hedland of the World Food Program in Malawi. Hedland's reference to a "full-scale famine" was intended to characterize Malawian officials' and relief workers' conclusions about the developing crisis and not WFP's official assessment, which requires that a number of conditions be met before a food shortage can be categorized as a famine.