Australia has one of the world's most under-reported humanitarian crises in its own back yard: a food shortage in Papua New Guinea.
The crisis in PNG was the eighth most under-publicised global disaster in 2016, a report from aid agency CARE revealed on Tuesday.
The majority of the other crises were in Africa, along with North Korea and Bangladesh.
El Nino conditions last year brought drought and repeated frosts at high altitudes in PNG, wiping out crops, meaning 1.4 million people went hungry.
Fortunately, the drought conditions have now started to ease.
TOP 10 UNREPORTED HUMANITARIAN CRISES FOR 2016
1. Eritrea - food crisis
2. Burundi - conflict
3. Madagascar - food crisis
4. North Korea - food crisis
5. Lake Chad basin - conflict
6. Congo - conflict
7. Bangladesh - floods
8. Papua New Guinea - food crisis
9. Central African Republic - conflict
10. Sudan - conflict
CARE Australia's emergency response manager Stefan Knollmayer says people in some areas in PNG have been able to replant crops.
However, drought conditions take nitrogen out of the soil and therefore first crops may be smaller in size.
"It will be a good several years before communities are back to where they were prior to this," he told AAP.
CARE has finished handing out food packages, but is still providing agriculture training in some remote PNG communities.
