Morning Briefing

News outlets reported on the effects of major flooding in Pakistan and described the situation on the ground. "The worst floods in Pakistan's history already have swept through the nation's most important breadbasket provinces, destroying cotton and corn crops ... leaving many people in need of emergency food. Now experts warn that the food crisis could expand into a long-term problem if farmers can't get the seeds, draft animals and irrigation repairs they need for the fall planting of wheat, the nation's most important crop," McClatchy/Miami Herald reports in a story examining the flood's impact on the country's food security.